What a difference a day makes!

Yesterday I had such a wonderful time with my friend and her terminally ill husband, singing and laughing, finding songs that none of us had sung for many years, going back to the Troggs and 'Wild Thing' which is also used in one of Omina's songs.
Today, although the weather is beautiful and spring is coming into her own here in Glasgow, the picture could not be more different.
My friend's husband is in hospital, unable to bear any weight at all now on one of his legs, in a great deal of pain which the hospital are dealing with, filling him with morphine and other drugs.
Life, is all about living, taking each day at a time, one step in front of the other from tiny children all the way through to our wise years when there must be some days when its difficult for some to put one step in front of the other and such a day has come for him.


Healing has many different threads, physical hands on healing, all kinds of creams and different  ointments, rubs, massage, lots of strapping and even plaster casts are needed at times.
Then there is the spiritual healing, the prayers, emotions, energies and all that those of a spiritual mind set will say, send and give for another.
And yet there is another healing that many of us find very difficult to talk about, and that is a final healing, when we leave this body our spirit inhabits and move on to where ever you understand the next place to be, heaven, the summerlands, the halls of the ancestors just to name a few ways top perceive life after death. But this is just as important a healing as any other, maybe more so.


For those with faith, with a knowledge of a spiritual path that teaches that this is not the end, that there is indeed life after death, our loved ones need to arrive in this new place in a stage of peaceful healing. Ready to meet with those who are there waiting to meet us, so how can we help here? If its possible at all to help.


I would like to think that prayers, candles lit sending thoughts, energies being sent would all help make a person who will soon be in the next place feel better. Arrive better rested, pain free and comfortable with their time.


So I'm not going to stop singing, nor stop sending my prayers and thoughts to this family, or indeed to any family that ask me to do so, because I think it does make a difference.


So sing, love, laugh and celebrate life, as we do gathered together, as many of us are taught to do. Because I feel that life is worth the celebration and the song, all the way over to the next place.