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Bianca Kennedy's avatar

Thank you, Joe, for your thoughtfulness and wisdom. We are all filled with profound sadness, our hearts heavy. How we respond to this unspeakable tragedy, defines our movement, one of truth and peace and love, and reverence. Thank you for being an exemplar.

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Sarah's avatar

Your words and story are lovely, Joe. I follow you on X too, but I'm sorry to say I don't read your Substack often enough.

It's so hard for us little humans isn't it. We blame ourselves when things go "wrong" because somehow it means that we might have had control over it all. "If only I had been there," and "if only I had seen it in time." It's hard for us to admit that we don't have control over events at all, really. We only have control over ourselves... how we see, how we learn, how we know, how we love.

I've had many people die in the last ten years: my brother, my father, my stepfather, my uncle, my aunt, and the last was my husband last year, which was the most shocking of all because he died suddenly, unexpectedly at home from a brain aneurysm. Right in my arms, in the living room. One minute here, next gone. It changed me profoundly.

I believe that death is a gateway too. I believe it's a portal to go back "home", to God. In the year before my husband died, simply out of curiosity I had been watching numerous Near Death Experience videos on YT, and later read a book called Journey of Souls, which is an account of what many people have experienced after dying and being brought back. My husband was reading that book when he died.

God bless you.

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