The Gentle companions along the way . We welcome you to this week's episode Solace: Soul + Grief . We all suffer losses and life transitions and we found it helpful to remind ourselves what place God has in that journey .
Each week we try to become in touch with our ability to open our hearts in all our brokenness , to be able to receive the brokenness in others , participate in the healing love that God brings us all . My name is Candee Lucas I'm the chaplain and aftercare coordinator at Catholic Cemeteries for the Diocese of San Jose . We're glad you're here .
You're always welcome in our circle of love and healing support . Rendering is the action of giving , yielding or surrendering something . It came from the old French , a word that meant to give back . The prophet Hosea tells us that God came , the Yahweh of the Old Testament , and said to us --I fell in love with you when you were a child .
I held you in my arms , I tied you to my own heart with golden cords-- . And yet the message of that verse is that we didn't see the love , we didn't experience the love , or if we did , it is long forgotten .
That seems to me quite like us , like us humans who get balled up and entangled in daily tasks and daily words and daily feelings and forget to remind ourselves to stop , and feel the heartbeat of God , to stop and feel that love that emanates from our very own hearts that are one with His heart , with the hearts of others , with the hearts of other human beings
who struggle , who suffer , who are a little broken . Please find in my heart where the shadows dwell . Ask them why they are polished . So . Only . Possibly . Maybe let us examine together , conmigo . He says to me . Jesus says to you-- your self so craves love .
Yet your self is loved , madly , freely , sumptuously by me , he says , I support you when you fly or fall , even now , as you stray into darkness or the shadows , using your heart as a salve , as a substitute Even now , admitting to this fact , as you continue to do so even now , is that what you want in a grown-up relationship ? No . U nnotice .
T he noticing is polished , but double edged . She cannot experience it yet . It may take decades of people dying to mourn . She is behind us and but a small polished stone in her heart because she rubs it so much . Can you bring her out out of your heart ? She needs honor , love and a proper burial , a proper goodbye , a proper farewell .
Rend your heart so we may weep later . Now . We are now . Mercy . God forgives me . I was called . I so wanted to be loved in my own way . Desirous of that love . That is what I cannot , will not turn my back on , Lord . Have mercy , Christ . Have mercy , Lord , have mercy . That concludes another episode .
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Be gentle with yourselves . Remember you are traveling with God and he is traveling with you . Vaya con Dios .