entle companions along the way , we welcome you to this week's episode of Solace Soul Plus 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 Candy 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 . The prophet Hosea spoke to the children of Israel in chapter 11 , as he speaks to us now . I fell in love with you when you were still a child and I called you my child ever since Egypt . Thus were you called , but you went your own way .
I have pampered you , taking you in my arms , but you have ignored my healing care . I drew you with human ties , with cords of love , but I seemed to you as one who imposed a yoke on your jaws though I was offering you food .
This scripture reminds us that we are born in God's love , surrounded by God's love , bathed in God's love and light and healing all of our lives and thereafter , it is this love that carries us through the difficulties and sufferings and pain of a human life . The promise of a surrounding , everlasting , omnipotent love .
A love that looks very much like the universe , like the photos we now see from the Webb telescope . It isn't a dark night punctuated by stars . It is many colors and variations and sights that are beyond the human imagination . That's what a picture of love is .
Although we as humans often quantify things , put things neatly in a box , name them , label them , put them in a place in our brain where we can say I understand , it's understood , I know . God is really larger than we can know . Whatever we can know is a limitation on God and God's love .
How he keeps us near is he delivers on that promise Even in our darkest , stormy days . He promises us a rainbow of love , even when we cannot see it , even when our eyes are darkened . We know that promise in our heart and , if need be , our hearts will be broken open to remind us .
Be broken open to remind us , for we can exist to each other on this plane of love , on this intentional , enraptured place and space of God's healing love , because it is available to us all , not through blind faith nor blind imagining , not necessarily through the tales and myths that we know about God and religions throughout the world , but through the lived
experience of our own hearts . We have experienced our own breaking hearts . We have experienced the heartbreak of others and as our hearts lie broken open , we know and understand instinctively that healing is available to us , because love is always available to us .
Maybe we cannot see it on a particular day or sense it at a particular time , but we as humans are so rooted in that love that it can never be very far from us , and we can never be very far from us and we can never be very far from it . It is something that is always available to us . That concludes another episode .
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You can contact us at the telephone number or email address in the show notes Be gentle with yourselves . Remember you are traveling with God and he is traveling with you . Vaya con Dios .