The Pathless Path: On God & Grief

Podcast Episode #5
On God & Grief 

Why using God to give comfort to a grieving person is not always the best thing to do — unless you know, deeply, the trajectory of their faith, and grief.

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Be An Empty Vessel
by Elizabeth Welles 

A wife asked her husband, “What do I do for my friend when I visit her? She grieves her mother much.”
The husband asked the mother, “What does my wife do for your daughter?”

The departed Mother’s Soul answered,
“There is nothing for your wife to do. Just go there and be with my daughter and love her.”

 

When you see grieving friends, leave behind your brandishing swords of earthly wisdom:
“All things are for your growth,” or “hope for a better day.”

 

Leave behind your healing ways.
Advice-giving, fix-it tools with your desire to relieve suffering.

Even the greatest of healers say foolish things.
Be silent before your grieving people,
Words are useless here.

You know little of the mysteries of death and the sacrament of sorrow.

Instead bow before grieving loved ones,

Be an empty vessel in their presence,
And you will have given everything to them

In Love.