Against Your Wishes Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

This is a simple (but not simplistic) , dignified, quiet expression of heart-sorrow. It links you intimately with all of humanity because the sorrow of losing our loved ones is everyone's sorrow. But that doesn't make it any easier to bear. We know according to faith there is a larger purpose for these losses which multiply in our lives, but in the midst of heart-sorrow that is a pale consolation. And I would not be so arrogant as to try to console you. I share your grief. I admire your capacity to love. The rest, as my friend Kathy says, is in God's Hands.