Many things are unsaid; few are unspeakable. I’ve seen
enough sudden death, often of young people. Significant speech is hard to come
by. I can’t confront it, engage it, or ameliorate it. It confronts you.
Mourning is actually a virtue. It stands with mercy, peace-making,
pure hearts and desire for right living. Mourning falls under the cardinal
virtue of Justice, that gives back to every thing what rightfully belongs to
it. What can the beloved dead require? Mourning gives back the treasures their
presence gave to us. It’s an honest rendering of account.
Suicide is not unspeakable, nor is murder. We live in
an unjust world. It doesn’t only happen to other people, other families, other
friends. It’s here. Closer than you think.
At the crossroads, where we won’t be missed, or will
we? the virtue of mourning may display how the most desperate will still be
missed. Saying is saving. So few things are actually unspeakable. However
unlikely it seems, we will be mourned.
Find someone you can trust. There will be one person,
perhaps not the one you expect, who can be trustworthy. For one honest soul,
the Lord will not let the city be destroyed.
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