Resurrection Air

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”― Leo Tolstoy

“On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.”― Jerusalem Jackson Greer

The aftermath of grief.
The lingering.
The numbness.
We all have walked this when a loved one dies.
The threshold of never going back to the way it was.
And yet.
Hope.
Gently pulls and then carries you forward.
Day by day, little by little.
From empty heart to empty tomb.
The middle place.
Resurrection air coming soon.
Wait.
Hope.
Trust.
Breathe.

“The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be rolled back, and we must be ready to poke out our timid heads, take off the linen bindings of death, and walk free for a time, breathing resurrection air.”― Ronald Rolheiser, Prayer: Our Deepest Longing