My experience with angels and spirits has given me the opportunity to work with people when they are experiencing grief over the loss of a loved one. It is a common understanding that our spirit leaves our body and what is left is not who we are. Who we are is more connected to the spirit that moves on. So many of us are unsure what happens when our spirit moves on and when we lose a loved one, the fear or lack of understanding of the continuation of spirit is partly what causes us grief.

Whether you believe that the spirit goes to heaven or that you are reincarnated into another human being or something else really doesn't matter. What I tell people it is important to understand is that our spirit continues. We are timeless and we continue. There is peace beyond this body, that much I know and the rest of it is up to each individual to decide for themselves.

I don't have any difficulty going through this with people and compassionately being present for them during their time of grief, but today I'm on a bumpy road. This week a ten year old boy was struck by a car and killed. His life was not an easy one as it was suspected that a form of abuse was going on in his home and his general appearance suggested that he was not deeply cared for. And then he died.

My human, thinking mind wonders about fairness and maybe I even feel a little angry. It is the deeper, spirit part of me that is quietly still and understands that his spirit was here for a purpose that I don't understand. I also know that his spirit is free of the tough times of his earthly incarnation and that his spirit is now one again with Source and at peace. So tonight I am going to have a short time of silence for him to celebrate the freedom of his spirit and not to dwell on his sad life story. If you read this and take your own moment of silence, his spirit will feel the love that is sent for him and will shine even brighter in the universe.
C