At the wake of Jugo Bernas, the 13-month grandson of former president Gloria Arroyo who died on All Souls Day, a slide show flashed pictures of the baby afflicted by congenital heart disease. A shifting mix of sadness and pain, innocence and joy, love and loss stirred as one viewed the images from a year of struggling to survive. One cannot begin to imagine the family’s anguish over the tragedy of their toddler taken.
In the face of such passing, belief in a loving God Who brings the grieving and the grieved together forever is for many the only way to accept their irreversible parting. The atheist’s assertion that nothing remains or follows once heart and brain are stilled, is so tough to take, most mourners far prefer a next life to one and done, even if the former may be wishful thinking.
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