The grinding process of letting be of memories and things people try to let go off or simply get rid of is often a difficult process, so many emotions are attached to it all...
Our times shared on the shores by the river of life ineluctably carry us forth not unlike the currents of the ocean. Keeping an focussed handle on the rudder of it is pretty much all we can do. Training in easier times makes the storms easier to handle when one becomes tested of real. Accepting the walk along its shores is one things, leaning to navigates its currents another. Yet, as we enter this life, the game is on and there's no turning back.
Luckily, we aren't coming here alone and this community of caring individuals around us is here to support us when we feel like giving up on others but, even more importantly, when we give up on ourselves. It tough times such as these, it is with tender compassion that I want to offer truth and my warm support in light. The double-entente saying "Strength is within us all" is shared with you here, now. I feel for you and your family. There's a saying in French, in Quebec where we say "It is worth the pain." ("Ça vaut la peine.") meaning that if we take the opportunity to participate into something, as painful as it might be, it is nevertheless worthwhile. You poem underlines some of the great value of living this life, thank you for sharing this truth with us all.
Many blessings to you all. (((HUG))) Namaste :)
Wow, @eric-boucher. Thank you. You pegged it.
"Training in easier times makes the storms easier to handle when one becomes tested of real."
The exercises relating to "Letting go"seem crazy to most of the ones living in the hopes of acquiring more or simply wish to have more powers to have more. If they only knew the weight it has at the moment of death! Loving is our only sustainable worthwhile option in relation to living life and doesn't prevent one form the pains and major heartaches brought by the onslaught of passing over.
The practice of letting go of our emotions as they come by is easily visualized through many different forms of meditations. Yet, the depth of love and being love makes the experience excruciating, especially if we aren't aware of the continuity of life and its persistence through the cycle of life-death-life and so on. Some of of the main goals of mediations points to the upbringing of an experience of bliss where the body is but a vessel. Upon reaching this level, it is not a matter of faith more than a matter of experiential knowledge that sustains us peacefully through what seems to be the ups and downs of life.
Blessings brother, namaste :)
Thank you so much for that reminder, @eric-boucher. We are all but waves of the same sea.