Remembering those who suffer during this holiday season

This is the time of year when everyone is full of great cheer. One of my favourite times of the year.  Yet there are many families and people that are suffering right now. Loved ones who have recently passed over to the other side or loved ones on their way to the other side. There are families being ripped apart due to divorce, lost jobs, anxiety and all sorts of strife we will never know about or understand.

So today the beginning of a new week, I ask that we all observe in our hearts a moment of love and peace for these people. A moment of silence and reverence. To send them as much positive energy as we can to help lift their spirits in this time of love and joy because their hearts cannot feel it at the moment.

I write this because my family recently sent a Christmas card to a man and a woman who used to come to Bermuda every single year and go out on my husband’s boat when he ran his watersports business. They came year after year and brought friends with them too. They were one of his best marketing agents ever. We even had them to our house a few times. They became our friends even though they were much older than us and came from a completely different background and place from us.

But we lost touch with them as sometimes happens when life takes us on different paths. But for some reason this year, I felt the need to send them a Christmas card. To touch base. Only to come home to receive a voice message from a very broken man. A man who told us that his beloved wife and best friend had passed a few weeks before. That she had battled cancer for the past two years but could not take it anymore and slipped away to the other side.

The pain in his voice was enough to cause both my husband and I to feel every bit of his pain. He told us how lonely he was to have lost the love of his life. How sad it was for him to lose her because they were still very much in love even though they had been married for 30 years plus. Even now as I type this story I feel his pain despite him being in another country.

So today, this Monday, another start to a week, please take a moment today to think of all those you know who are experiencing pain and send them positive energy. Help them to find their way out of the darkness if it is meant to be by just being there. Start by being grateful for the blessings we have in our own lives. Allowing that gratitude to radiate out to those who feel they have nothing to be grateful for. Remembering not to take anything for granted because each of us will experience loss in our lives.

During this season of good cheer, let’s all spread as much glad tidings as we can as there are many people and families that need it. With love and light to our friends and families who need us in spirit right now, we are with you. As we are all one. Namaste.