Letting Go

This concept came up in one of my evening readings in a grief book I have. I don't really know what it means to "let go" when it comes to you. I asked a few people over the weekend and they didn't know either. It's something I will have to think on.

The passage I read implied that if we don't let go that our departed one would not be fully free, that it ties them to us to make sure we are going to be alright. Here's a poem that was in a funeral bulletin:

 

When I come to the end of the day

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.

Why cry for a soul set free?

 

Miss me a little, but not too long

And not with your head bowed low.

Remember the love we once shared-

Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take

And each must go alone.

It's all a part of the Maker's plan,

A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart

Go to the friends we know, & bury your sorrow

In doing good deeds-

Miss me, but let me go.

 

 

When I first was contemplating the concept, it made me extremely sad. I will have to get back to you on this. Love you!