How is it that when you behold a loved one at your celebration of their life, you innately know they cannot be gone forever?  You know this, for the knowing sense is the part of you that does not die.  You know that you have lived before this time in a body and you will continue on forever after it passes.  Those who forget this have become conditioned to paying attention only to the human way of thinking.  When the passing of a loved one awakens you from your stupor of limited human thinking, the strong bond of love which joins you reawakens you to the soul’s very presence within all beings.  That which love hath brought together, no physical body’s passing can tear apart. 

You are so very loved.

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