Walking Each Other Home

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January 5, 2024

 

I’ve always known I’m going to die.
I just never believed it.
Dr. Stu Farber,
Palliative Care Physician 


When news arrived that a dear friend in Ireland is now in palliative care, tears were immediate. I’ve known he’s not well. But the thought that I will probably not see him again is devastating. He’s been such a gift and something of a mentor on my spiritual journey in Ireland. So generous in sharing his decades of accumulated Druidic wisdom.

And with this news, I’m reminded that an intellectual understanding of approaching the death threshold shatters when that knowing lands in my body and soul. As Stu intimated in his pithy observation, knowing this and believing it are vastly different experiences. 

Navigating this landscape of belief, I find such comfort in these words from Ram Dass. Reminding myself that indeed we are, so many of us, on this sacred journey together. Holding each in the gracious space of love and light. Supporting each other to walk that journey with all the sovereignty and integrity and intention we can gather about us. In this I so relish my spiritual sisters and brothers. Which makes this friend’s crossing so poignant. 


Blessings of Crone Wisdom,
Judith

3 thoughts on “Walking Each Other Home”

  1. Love to you Judith…such a mixed blessing of age that we finally find our soul’s tribe and then gradually lose them one by one…but such deep gratitude nevertheless. Grateful for you.

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  2. Love to you Judith…such a mixed blessing of age that we finally find our soul’s tribe and then gradually lose them one by one…but such deep gratitude nevertheless. Grateful for you.

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  3. Judith,
    Thank you so much for this sharing. I am so sorry for the sorrow you are experiencing as your friend’s earthly journey nears its end. It is especially hard when a person who has shaped our lives so profoundly is dying. But how wonderful that you and he have shared so deeply over the years. I find that I am grateful for his life as well because he has helped make you the marvelous person you are.
    The concept from Ram Das that we are simply walking each other home is a beautifully tender thought. As we in Avalon age and change it seems to me that walking that journey with each other is exactly what we are about these days. It is what we have always been about I suppose.
    Thank you for this. You are a blessing to our circle.
    Love,
    Lynn

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