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A Bridge to Home

The Spaces That Hold Us After Loss

By Chara PaynePublished 2 months ago 1 min read
Photo by Alain Frechette on Pexels

Cemeteries, urns, and the vessels we use to honor our dearly departed

are not just resting places of finality,

but thresholds where two worlds collide.

They are symbolic spaces where we can reconnect from the loss of our beloved—

bridges to the space of the unknown,

tethers to the liminal here and now

that help ground us when our world has collapsed

and must be reshaped into a new landscape—

a new way of being without them.

They are the force of the sacred that gives form to the formless,

where the seen and unseen can coexist,

where the old world collapses and a new one is reborn—

from earth, from ash, from matter made of spirit,

that has transcended space, time, and continuity.

Where absence becomes presence

and revelations arise in the depths of the void.

Where love does not stop

but finds a new path to traverse home….

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