Thank you, Alchemy.

Wish, Pray, that I can accept things the way they might be without angst as you do.

There is something quite powerful and profound about loving the people I know while blood is coursing through their veins, loving their laugh, the significance, huge significance of their lives. Believing with all my heart life doesn't end with them being sealed in a coffin, that they have an eternal spirit which can transcend the grave and be in peace and love with a loving, beyond our comprehension, "God". To have believed that with all my heart for 50 something years...and to one day wake up and consider the possibility, Possibility, I may have simply believed in another story, one which has an after-life and most loving "God". Just a story. It doesn't necessarily make me sad for myself, but for all of humankind for them to possibly end up as "just a rotted piece of meat in a coffin"...that is all, all, and fully ends there.

Annie