Expression of Love
The pain and suffering of Christ: to this he fully gave Himself; it is the
ultimate expression of His Love. When your loved one dies, attempt not to
suppress your pain; it is likewise the ultimate expression of your love.
Understand, if you attempt to suppress the pain, you are likewise suppressing
and bottling up the flow of love. Their physical absence does not cause that
love in your heart to cease its flow; only that it is changed in its expression. Comfort may be found if you realize and recognize pain as love
expressed. Emptiness of heart is supposed, as the object of its love is taken
away. But how can a heart be empty if it yet remains a fountain of love?
Withhold not your tears: if weeping over the death of a loved one is a sin, then
Jesus was the chiefest of sinners. Allow yourself no guilt or intimidation
because of your pain: rather might these be due if your heart was hardened
and cold. Express not only sadness to a friend in pain, but enter into the suffering
with him. Understand this pain you bear to be a channel through which love is
allowed to continue its flow. When they were present this channel was not
needed. Now may it span the distance even into the presence of and providing
a linkage between the temporal and the eternal. Again, understand that the sufferings of Christ were for Him a channel
through which He might express His love for you.
