“There is nothing that can
replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to
do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard,
but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the
emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person
through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way
fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve
-- even in pain -- the authentic relationship. Furthermore, the more beautiful
and full the remembrances, the more difficult the separation. But gratitude
transforms the torment of memory into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in
the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure
of which one can always be certain.”
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