Words I Love Volume 3

A grieving widower was counseled to keep a journal of his experience as a means of therapy to help him cope with the loss of his wife. The journal he started keeping became a portal into a world of poetry reflecting a new hidden life that he and his wife shared. The wife's death was seen as a second wedding leading to a higher spiritual life. The husband's future death was seen as a third wedding leading to a yet higher spiritual life. The grieving widower finds his grief to have been in vain. From heaven he hears a sweet and powerful refrain:Since that day we tasted deathWe've learned my dear to live again.(134. A Studious Earthly Beau lines 3-4)