when the grief hits
“but what even are we?!?”
my daughter recently asked what or who each religion believes created the first Gods/creators/universes. 🔭
this baby is brilliant and rare and so aware!
while the questions never stop, extensional ones are extra tough for me
i was raised in a high demand bible ready religion.
church on mondays, wednesdays, fridays and sundays.
i took eight years of seminary and spent 18 months on a mission.
so, to answer my daughter, i went with the king james version of the ‘council of the gods/divine council’
my husband went the reincarnation route and we spent the rest of the night googling and learning together
i’m not sure how others might have answered her. we’re painfully fact based and love to wonder about how humans are connecting to whatever we get to be.
i want there not to be a heaven or hell
for everyone to pull it together and make it heaven here.
i know youre trying. or your heart wouldn’t have made it this far down the post.
there’s grief in that too. knowing those who agree are sad and tired as well. (is this the new “shout it from the mountain tops”?… are we always searching for a third space?)
the grief in the weight of this loneliness epidemic
the grief of waking up to the world is weird.
i miss the self righteous knowing that comes with being unaware of the universal reality of unjustifiable things being done in a gods name
the grief of not knowing where my dead brothers are. the grief of not wanting to live hypocritically.
the grief of my family not wanting to know me or my cool brilliant babies💫
the grief of this new anger i carry around
grief
/grēf/
noun
Deep mental anguish, as that arising from bereavement
"Trying to follow their directions was nothing but grief."
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