Completion?
So they say the number seven represents a sort of completion: a bridge or gateway to a new phase of harmony, divine perfection, and understanding. The biblical and Hebraic scholars believed this and so did ancients of other religions. Seven seems to indicate a season of shifting - a simultaneous ending and beginning all at once that symbolize the fulfillment of a spiritual journey and the start of a fresh chapter of wholeness and balance. But I'm sitting here wondering how that applies to grief. I can understand that significance when it comes to something positive, yet is it even possible that one can experience this transitional movement after carrying deep sorrow for that same length of time? It's been seven years now since I posted on this very blog that my best friend and the brother I'd never had was gone. One late night discovery of his obituary and I was undone. I will forever remember where I was standing in the house when I saw the news and the endless tears tha...
