the luminous blog: A Luminous Milestone

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A Luminous Milestone

This is the third year.

The third winter

and third spring
-spring to be, really -

that I go through

with this newfound,
so very appropriate,

luminous perspective...

Aye,
some may say

it is depressing

on the surface

to look at it

this way:

and yet
as spring beckons,

I can only

relive

in the mind's eye,

in sad memory,

the passing,

departure,

demise

of a near,

dear one.

An end

when all about us

we see signs

of a new beginning.

Quite frankly,

it could not have been

any better than this!

Thank you, God
for having made it all
come to pass
the way it did.
Dad is better off
as our faith is renewed
- simultaneously.

Even the rain at the funeral
was like a downpour
of blessings
washing over me,
over him,
over us all who were there.
Even the ones
I've since grown apart from!

The rain
symbolized the opening
of Heaven's Gates;
as so beautifully expressed
in Michael W Smith's
classic song
Let It Rain

Or this piece right here:

Or this one:

Verily,

the rain symbolized
a torrent of blessings
- as well as
the spring season
in and by itself
symbolizes
RESURRECTION.
And everything about us
-truly everything in nature-
in the Cycle of Life,
all of it reeks of
the immortality
of the soul;
see it
for yourself
in the neverending cycle
all about us,
in the flowers that bloom
only to wither;
and then grow again.
Observe it again and again,
with luminous discernment
- for even in the decay
of every form of matter...
The Essence Remains!

I'll see you again
father -
when we both see
Our Father...
Until then...

Happy Birthday Dad.

It's your 75th.

And this is

officially

the 1000th

edition

of the

luminous blog -

and no;
we couldn't have had

a better one

in any other

circumstance!

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