Today is the Feast of All Souls and we remember our loved ones who have passed away; while we sometimes fear death and don’t want to think about it, there are many who can feel better about it when we consider it from different perspectives. Two such perspectives given here might give us reason to pause:
“A woman requested that she be buried with a fork in her hand because she wanted to remind others of her favorite part of a meal. She loved it when someone said, ‘Keep your fork for dessert.’ She knew that the best part of the meal was coming! So the next time you reach for your fork, let it remind you, oh so gently, that at the end of a meal or at the end of a life…the best is yet to come.”
This also reminds me of something the Victorian poet Robert Browning once wrote in Rabbi Ben Ezra:“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!’
Written by: Sr. Marie Paul Grech SND
In the Hands of the Potter 
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