I'm struck today by the death of an acquaintance. A person I knew mostly by reputation and name alone. Such a powerless sense of defeat in my soul. A heart wrenching feeling.
His soul was so bright and my soul feels the passing of his light in a shattering way. It almost makes no sense. I physically knew this person no more than any two people who occasionally share a common space would. Yet I'm still stuck to the core by his death.
A powerful light went out today and the darkness seems to win yet again, but something is different. The light is gone, but within I'm being shown a silver lining. This sorrow, this shattering... it isn't an encroaching darkness rattling my soul, rather it is a resonance of his light as it departs its source for the last time. Touching and mingling with mine in a seismic way.
Some in this world touch more of us than others, but even when the brightest souls succumb to the darkness, the light continues on. It is persistent in all of us who care to recognize the loss and accept the passing of the torch. The call to press on in the darkness.
Today my soul is brighter for having known his. RIP my fellow. Amen.
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