” I say something
to myself that’s between a prayer and a curse – how dare we live
on this earth.
[…]
but […] I’m made out of old stars…” and so are you.
Grief is a natural and healthy human emotion. In the depths of winter and bitter cold, it is magnified for many people where our sentiments at times are indeed between a silent prayer and a curse. And still, we are made out of old stars, meaning that the stuff which makes up our bodies was once shining brilliantly as a star and will someday in billions or trillions of years, do so again. This is the complexity of the human experience God has made us into for a brief time; your grief in whatever season has brought it is true, but so is your divinely made brilliance. Do not carry your grief today without also carrying your brilliance.
Quote Adapted from Limon, Ada. “The Carrying: Poems”, The Vulture and the Body. P. 12-13.