THE LINK OF LOVE
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
June 22
Will you meet your relatives and friends
when you go over?
Where there is a strong emotional link
either of love or hatred
there is likely to be a meeting.
Where there is a strong link of genuine love
there is sure to be a meeting.
Where there is no particular feeling between two people
there will not be a meeting.
There is a real danger that if you allow yourself
to indulge in hatred of anyone,
you will meet when you have both passed over.
To prevent this happening,
destroy the link by ceasing to hate.
The so-called dead are very sensitive to our thoughts,
and for this reason, excessive grief is to be deprecated.
It saddens them and prevents their focusing their attention
as they should upon the new life that they are starting.
Of course, it seems very hard to tell people
not to grieve when one whom they have dearly loved
passes out of sight,
but remember that if there is a link of love
you will certainly meet again,
and that nothing that is good,
or beautiful, or true, can ever be lost.
We can pray for those who have passed on,
and indeed, it is a sacred duty to do so.
The, practice was generally
discontinued after the Reformation
because it had been greatly abused and commercialized,
but, nevertheless, it is an excellent practice in itself.
Realize peace of mind, freedom,
and understanding for them.
“In my Father's house are many mansions:
if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you”
John 14:2
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