The Burial of Body and More

Following the church service, we made our way to the cemetery. In the car, I foresaw the burial and felt sick to my stomach. Hiding her body away in the ground marked the end of what we can see. It's natural to fear what we can't see and since death snatched my Mother out of sight, we react to it with fear. We all deal with loss in different ways. My preferred strategy is turning negative into positive. Would you consider this to be a burial strategy?  Fear into confidence. Loss into Gratitude. Grief into Acceptance. Sadness into Contentment. The method will differ according daily pressures. Midst good and bad days we ought to remain mindful at all times. 

Getting out of the car, we walked through the gates of the cemetery.  Black bodies bobbed around the unevenly constructed pavements and headed towards the reserved place. I was surprised that no digging was involved. No holes in the ground but a doorway to a basement. The door was opened and other coffins came to light. There was my aunt, a victim of cancer, who's body perished fours years ago. With ropes, Mother's coffin was slowly descended to the depths down below and placed where it will remain for years to come. The crowd of men obstructed the picture. I rushed to the front to observe, learn and make peace with reality; The end of the physical and the beginning of the spiritual. 

Done and Dusted I walked away. My father's arms wrapped behind my shoulders. His other arm wrapped round my sister. We walked away ahead of the crowd. We walked away from mother's body. I could see our shadow in the sand. We were now three, not four. Tears did and do flow. I trust that mother's soul was and is vibrating around us, floating above us and present with us. Imagination brings me into the future and out of the past, looking ahead into what we will share in a land of castles in the sky  or a  heavenly kingdom unbound by time or space. I'm looking forward to Mother's invitation into her new household. A new adventure. An opportunity to learn grow and become something new. 

May your body rest in peace. May our souls meet half way.