"Sometimes that is the only solace for loss."
Meher Mount
Your Friday photo...
Visitor Stephanie Ervin shared a memory and the perspectives gained from a photo she took at Meher Mount many years ago…
“I took this photo of a tree trunk on a misty day at Meher Mount in April 2013. A few months later I came back to find it was gone.”
“Loving something, appreciating it, enjoying it while it is present means that when it is no longer close to us, we have the comfort of knowing we did what we could with the time we had together. Sometimes that is the only solace for loss.”
“There are times when the lessons I’ve learned at Meher Mount feel like a microcosm of the larger world. So much lives, thrives, is pared back, and then lost.
It is taken away by people, by time, by natural events, but all ultimately by God.
This bare trunk was an ode to the tree that existed before.
This particular photo captures a feeling that nothing is permanent. But for me, that is a reason to love it all the more: because it is impermanent.
We never know how long we’ll have anything, how long we’ll be next to someone, how many days we will have in any one space.
Loving something, appreciating it, enjoying it while it is present means that when it is no longer close to us, we have the comfort of knowing we did what we could with the time we had together. Sometimes that is the only solace for loss.”
~Stephanie Ervin, Visitor