Take care my Friend, Jackie Malcolm

I am a new reader here. Just looking through your blog and find this touching description of last hours of our brother by you. I am really moved and felt really sorry for the kid who was taken so early by God. May his soul rest in peace. I may be a little late but I convey my heart felt condolence to you and your family.

Regards

Shekhar

2/ My husband died 25 years ago, after a violent, tragic life. Thinking of him sometimes I still feel like strangling him with my bare hands or covering him with honey and exposing him to red ants! I had loved him and found it difficult to bring myself to judging him, with the years. Some 4 months ago, just before getting asleep, I heard on the screen inside my lids a jogger approaching, then I saw the face of my husband, smiling at me, humorous and slightly sardonic, as if saying : ‘Hey, la petite, nothing so terrible, you see?’ He looked way better than I had ever seen him – and we had been madly happy, for some years. This reminded me of the humorous end of the Mahabarata [now this seems misspelled ..] when the ‘good’ ones are scandalized to find the ‘bad’ ones having a good time in the after-earth life!
Jason, I like what you do – I’m still at the stage of being swamped and afraid to jump in and do.
Blessings

I came to your blog looking for your other products as I bought the amazing 48 hour report. But instead of a sales page (where is your sales page?????) I found the amazing tribute to your brother. What a fantastic writer you are.

My mum is dying of cancer at the moment – she lives in a different country so I get very little time with her but I value the time I do get. Like your brother she is very brave and inspirational – despite being told she has months to live she still refuses to give in. But we are lucky – we are getting more time with her and a chance to make sure she knows exactly how we feel about her.

Thank you so much for sharing – I hope that your obvious love for your mum gives her some comfort on the loss of her child.

Very best wishes for you and your family

THE RIVER OF LIFE

A painful loss can seem like the end of us. Some of us may feel as if we cannot
or do not want to live without this person. Life continues until our own end
comes. This is the cycle of life. This is the river of life.

In time, our painful losses will heal, just as a wound will heal. Experiencing tears
and grief will help us to heal. This helps us say goodbye and let go.

Grief cleanses our soul and frees us to move onwards to new dreams and goals.
On the other side of grief is freedom, dreams and life itself.

Devastating losses can bring us to our knees. We may feel broken from the loss
of someone close to us, but it need not be that way. Accepting our brokenness
opens us up to a new kind of wholeness. In time, we will be whole again.

With experience, we learn that pain and loss are a part of life. We must fully
accept pain and loss, and go deeply into it. This will help us to go through it and
come out the other side a stronger, more complete human being.

Change is also a major player in our lives. Most of us have fought against change
as if it were our personal enemy. We cannot stop change. We were all born and
we will all pass on one day.

The place a loved one had in our lives will never be filled, and need never be
filled. We can choose to live on with sweet, fond memories of those who have
moved onwards. We can choose to become closer to those we love and are still
with us.

We can choose to accept the flow of life, as if it were a river. A river never really
ends, it merely flows into the great expanse of life itself, the ocean. Think of
death as the next step of life. It is a transition to the heavens, to eternity, just as a river transitions to the ocean.

Prayer:

May we all grieve, heal and go forward, honoring the memories of those who
have meant so much to us. May we dream again, do our best, cherish those who
remain and live this awesome life to it’s fullest. Those who are no longer with us
would want nothing less for us.