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There Is Love

There is love here

Love that you can find

Open hearted and totally free

One of a kind

There for you and me

He’s always waiting

Humble

Compassionate

How is this possible

Why does he do this

How can this be

Because there is always a need

Someone hurt

Someone dying

Someone grieving

Put your doubts aside

Lay your burdens at his feet

He will meet your arguments

With a sweet logic

Its all quite simple

When you believe

 

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This image probably does not need me to say much at all about it - I think it is one of those images that will affect you emotionally if you are a spiritual person, but just maybe, might affect those who are not but wonder why.

 

Really the credit should go to the sculptor, as whoever created this wonderful depiction of Christ has caught something otherworldly, and it felt that way when I stood before it in Ocklynge Cemetery in my home town of Eastbourne on the Sussex coast of the UK.

 

There is this inward meditative quality about Christ’s expression that speaks to you on a deep level where his innate compassion is written upon his face for us to see.

 

And here we are in remembrance of the Saturday after his crucifixion..after every death there is this disbelief, a void. Will we ever feel joy again, and how do we escape this pain. Questions arise with no answers.

 

But the gift of being human is to be able to love. And to love and lose that love brings a unique pain. And this is what Christ learnt in His time here on this earth. But once experienced you know that it is a treasure you know you would never have wanted to not have experienced. This love enables us to carry those memories with us, and continue to love the person we have lost to the next world, even though they are no longer with us physically. There is also joy in knowing we will see them again, and this was Christ’s message for us, as He came to reassure His friends and disciples after His death. This space of time before that happened on Easter Sunday is important in letting grief shed your doubts. It is as if we have to be flayed of everything we once judged as sensible, reasonable and logical. Only then does the light of understanding descend.

 

I have paired this work with George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”, where we can hear the longing in his voice to be reunited with his God. Please find the link below.

 

Until tomorrow, I will leave you with this wonderful song, and this beautiful depiction of Christ in Ocklynge Cemetery I was lucky enough to find.

 

youtu.be/AR4lpQWcT5g

 

And if you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:

 

www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com

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Uploaded on April 19, 2025
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