Live from the Afterlife

Endings and Hope


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"It's not an ending if you can see a future. And that is not about time, but perspective. Can you see a wider reality? Then it is not an ending. And some of those wider places may be in a past remembered, because without time, who cares.

"Grief, which mimics depression, does so because the person can see no wider vision. We know it is not depression because, over time (I know it doesn't exist, but hang with me), over a sequence of learning and remembering, the person in grief is able to see wider and wider until they can see around or beyond their loss. The trick is to keep them looking when the desire and energy is not there. We companion them, not to give them answers, but to encourage their looking--if only a part of a degree wider. A glimpse of a possibility is as good as a cure. Never underestimate the immense power of a glimmer of hope.

"Don't give them the sun, or even promise it, when all that is asked for or needed is a small ray of light. Too many want flashes, when sparks will do." 

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Live from the AfterlifeBy Randy and Elissa Bishop-Becker