Love Trumps Politics
Yesterday—March 22, 2016—would
have been my daughter Alexa's thirty-seventh birthday—would have been because she
died at age seven and a half from brain cancer on November 2, 1986.
I shared Alexa's birthday
on Facebook because it's one of the things I do to honor her—to remember her,
just as I have her photos displayed in my home, just as I speak about her, just
as I continue to love her.
I am abundantly blessed
with family and friends who hold me up and show me such extraordinary love and
caring whenever I write about Alexa. Hearts reach out and hold my heart. In
turn, I get to hold the hearts of others because grief is a universal emotion.
We need each other when we experience grief, loss, longing. I receive so much
comfort and healing from each person who responds to Alexa's photo on her
birthday or her “I Love You Mommie” card on the anniversary of her death.
Yesterday, as I read the
kind, caring words of my Facebook family, for twenty-four hours, we each
transcended the things that separate us, politics, economics, religion, belief
systems. In this election year, politics especially find me drawing hard lines
of separation between myself and others.
Yesterday, those lines of
separation were erased. Love crossed them out, one by one, and left nothing but
caring, compassion, and shared hearts.
I must remember that
erasure today and every day. I must place my focus on compassion, caring, and
love, because when I get to the core of my essence, the essence of all those
billions of people on the planet, we can each transcend and erase the lines
that separate us, and leave only love.
Thank you, my Facebook
family, for all the love yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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