Finding A Place To Stand In Grief And Spirit

Send us Fan Mail A single line of poetry can stop you in your tracks, especially when you’re grieving. We open this reflection todat with a passage attributed to Sanai, an Afghan poet whose life changed after one jolting encounter, and we sit with the haunting claim: “I am a homeless treasure. The world was made to give you a place to stand and see me.” If you’ve ever felt unmoored after loss, that image offers a surprising kind of steadiness.  From there, follow Ivan M. Granger’s commentary from "The Longing in Between" and wrestle with a spiritual question in plain language: if mystics are right that reality is fundamentally one, why do we experience separation at all? We walk through the human journey from infant unity, to the toddler’s boundary making “no,” to adult life in a world of self and other. Along the way, name what grief makes obvious: even when we learn how to function, something still aches, and it isn’t solved by more running from place to place.  The invitation is both practical and deeply contemplative: keep your place to stand, but start “polishing the mirror of your heart” until you can see the one in the patterns of the many. If you’re looking for grief support, spiritual direction, Sufi poetry that actually meets real life, or a path toward spiritual healing, this is for you. Subscribe, share with someone who needs solace, and leave a review and tell me: what does “homeless treasure” bring up for you? https://www.amazon.com/Longing-Between-%E2%80%A2Sacred-Chaikhana-Anthology/dp/0985467932 CONTACT ME AT:  [email protected] Art, Artifacts, Fabric and Design:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/vasonaArts?ref=seller-platform-mcnav and  https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/candee-lucas and https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/vasonaarts ELECTRONIC BOOKS:  1000 IMAGES OF JESUS  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2SFH4Z6  Music and sound effects today by:   via Pixabay