Comments on: Grieving In Silence http://sparks.infonetportal.com/grieving-in-silence/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:18:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter Link http://sparks.infonetportal.com/grieving-in-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Peter Link Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:06:43 +0000 http://sparks.infonetportal.com/?p=722#comment-742 Great thoughts here, Olivia. I know Maurizio's parents are at peace today with their son's passing, but they still shed their tears. No parent should outlive their children. Great thoughts here, Olivia. I know Maurizio’s parents are at peace today with their son’s passing, but they still shed their tears. No parent should outlive their children.

]]> By: Olivia http://sparks.infonetportal.com/grieving-in-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Olivia Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:26:03 +0000 http://sparks.infonetportal.com/?p=722#comment-708 I didn't want you to mourn in silence over the absence of comments on this somber post, Peter, so I had to thank you for your gift to Maurizio and his parents, and also share a little thought about mourning that lifts my understanding of life: You know the Beatitude from the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." Well, some years ago, a woman who grieved over miscarrying her child to the point of not wanting to go on was asked by her small son one day to help him understand the Beatitudes, which his teacher had talked about in his Sunday School class (as I recall). She realized she didn't really grasp their meaning herself, so she undertook a thorough study of each one. She shared the results of her spiritual search (and her healing of grief that resulted) in a Sentinel article in 1989, I think it was. Here is her interpretation of the "mourning" Beatitude: "You can be truly happy and at peace with God even if what you see makes you sad, for you can be sure God will open your eyes to His joy, and this new spiritual vision will comfort you." I am sure Maurizio's parents, perhaps inspired by your sweet song, are having their eyes opened by our heavenly Father to a comforting new spiritual vision of His joy. I didn’t want you to mourn in silence over the absence of comments on this somber post, Peter, so I had to thank you for your gift to Maurizio and his parents, and also share a little thought about mourning that lifts my understanding of life:

You know the Beatitude from the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Well, some years ago, a woman who grieved over miscarrying her child to the point of not wanting to go on was asked by her small son one day to help him understand the Beatitudes, which his teacher had talked about in his Sunday School class (as I recall). She realized she didn’t really grasp their meaning herself, so she undertook a thorough study of each one. She shared the results of her spiritual search (and her healing of grief that resulted) in a Sentinel article in 1989, I think it was. Here is her interpretation of the “mourning” Beatitude:

“You can be truly happy and at peace with God even if what you see makes you sad, for you can be sure God will open your eyes to His joy, and this new spiritual vision will comfort you.”

I am sure Maurizio’s parents, perhaps inspired by your sweet song, are having their eyes opened by our heavenly Father to a comforting new spiritual vision of His joy.

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