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What does it mean when we say 'good-bye'?   We are facing a separation and we offer a blessing. Good-bye. God be with you. One and the same. Sometimes the separation is death Dearly Beloved Family and Friends, Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918) Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without affect, without the trace of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. God is always with us. So are the ones we love. A tie exists- though not physical. We say "keep in touch" when we cannot touch. We hold on in other ways.   The heart finds a way.   page created with Webpage Designer (NS)