DECEMBER 20
When I say “I fear”—don’t let it disturb you, dearest heart.
We all fear when we are in waiting rooms. Yet we must pass
beyond them...All this sounds very strenuous and serious.
But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I feel
happy—deep down. All is well.
—KATHERINE MANSFIELDKatherine Mansfield was writing to her husband. It was her
own imminent death, and her own fear, she was writing
about.
We who mourn our loved ones are, in a sense, left in the
waiting room, not knowing what it is like to pass beyond.
But if we see that the one who is about to pass through has
lost all fear, and has confidence, after a long struggle, that
all is well—surely that diminishes our fear, too. And raises
our hope for what lies on the other side of the door when
we shall be summoned into the mystery.
After the struggle and the fear...comes peace.