Words of Comfort

Words of Comfort by Canon Scott Holland (1847-1918)

"Death is nothing at all… I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you… Whatever we were to each other that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household name it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well."

MORE ALIVE THAN EVER

Weep not for I stand beside you still, more alive than you can yet be.

Sense me for I behold your face.

Remember the happy times, for I shall be there.

I watch you now for a time until you shall join me.

Be happy with our memories and the fact that I am now in heaven.

But I shall return frequently to see you all, for I am but a space away,
It is only a higher vibration that separates us, love is unending.

I am exactly the same as you knew, and you are the same for me.

Bless you as you bless me for our lives are never apart for an instant, and never shall be.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE?

American lawyer Edwin C Randall investigated the afterlife for more than 20 years with direct voice medium Emily French.

This is what his own father told him about his death experience:

" As I arrived at the house where I was going, the sensation of weakness increased, and raising my eyes, I saw your mother standing in the room smiling. Startled, I arose to my feet, and my last earthly sensation was falling- and, as I now know, I did pitch forward on my face. I do not recall striking the floor, or pain in my death change. When the separation came I was like one in sleep.

The next I recall was awakening in the same room, with the leader of your spirit group holding my hand, helping me up. I had heard his wonderful voice many times when I was privileged to come into your work, but it took me some little time to realize what had happened to me. I saw my body on the floor. This startled me, for the body I then had was to my sight and touch identical with the one lying so quiet. I saw people hurrying, and heard the anxious talk, not yet comprehending my separation from the physical body. I turned to your old friend and mine, and asked him what had happened.

He answered; "Have you not been told when you talked with us in your son's home, that death was the separation of the inner from the outward body?" "I recall that statement" I replied, "But I never comprehended it." "You have just made that change", he said: "you are now an inhabitant of the spirit world and one of us." I was deeply impressed with what he said, but dazed. I did not realize that the something called death was behind me and that in me there had been no change, for I was the same in appearance and thought as before. " The French Revelation p.92 .