(Written by Hubert van Zeler, Moments of Light, recorded in "A Continual Feast" by Jan Karon)
Dedicated to those who mourn the passing of Robert Miller:
"It is not that we feel cut off from the bigger spiritual
relationship which survives death,
but from the hundred and one lesser links
which bind people together,
incidental things which when looked back on
seem of enduring significance,
but which were taken so much for granted at the time.
The other person's sense of humor, prejudices, moods,
all that has gone.
For the rest of our lives we shall have to do without
his mannerisms, his shyness,
his ways of pronouncing things.
The voice is silent-
we have expected it would be-
but that the yawns and bursts of laughter
will never be repeated
is almost more than we can bear...
Those moments were not passing moments at all.
They had something in them of eternity..."
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