A Blessing written by Jan Richardson for her husband who died following a stroke

This resonates so strongly with me.  Jan Richardson is such an amazing writer, spiritual worker, and artist.

Where Your Song Begins Again
A Blessing

Beloved,

I could not bear it
if this blessing ended
with the final beat
of your heart,

if it left
with the last breath
that bore you away
from here.

I could not stand
the silence,
the stillness
where all
had once been song,
had been story,
had been the cadenced liturgy
of your life.

So let it be
that this blessing
will abide
in the pulse
that moves us
from this moment
to the next.

Let it be
that you will breathe
in us here bereft
but beloved still.

Let it be
that you will make your home
in the chamber
of our heart

where your story
does not cease,
where your words
take flesh anew,
where your song
begins again.