From Hart to Hearts
A Message from Rev Linda Hart for the month of February 2010
Sometimes people just die too soon.
Sometimes we don’t get the opportunity we meant to take to tell them one more time what they mean to us; to say again how important their friendship has been. Sometimes in the rush of other moments and days and weeks, we forget to say how their laughter gives us joy, too; and that their love of life brings ours alive.
Or perhaps even given the luxury of time, we miss opportunities, we forget the necessity of telling this loved one or that friend what we feel.
Sometimes we are left with all the words and feelings still stuck in our hearts, even though we had meant to give them away, to pass them along before the time was too late.
And then it is too late.
And then someone dies too suddenly and too soon, and too much is left unspoken. All the good intentions and feelings of affection seem useless now. There is a hole in our lives with just the shape of that life. Each death, there’s a new shape, a new hole that is never filled, and words that trapped inside needing a way out.
So, do it now, say thank you, and say I love you out into the world on the off chance that the spirit lingers near. Say it all in the hope that we all remember, tomorrow and tomorrow, that the time is always short; and that the future is never certain.
Our days are counted by a calculation that it is impossible to discern. We must not wait for the opportunities to arise, but say what we mean to say each day. In this moment – the only time we have – may we each speak of love and laughter, of the joy we know and share, and ever speak a word of thanks for this unimaginable gift of life.
With my love,
Linda