Love awaits you at the end

Death frightens us because we imagine it as falling into nothingness, as losing everything. Faith looks at it differently: in the end emptiness does not await you; Love awaits you. And in that love of God you find again, purified, all the good affections of your life. That does not eliminate the pain of saying goodbye, but it changes the horizon. You are not walking toward a wall, but toward an embrace. What you loved well here is not lost: it is kept safe. Living with that hope is not escaping. It is walking more lightly, knowing that the best is not behind, but ahead.