My friendship is not ended. His death has had the very unexpected effect of making death itself look quite different. I believe in the next life ten times more strongly than I did. At moments it seems almost tangible. Mr. Dyson, on the day of the funeral, summed up what many of us felt, ‘It is not blasphemous’, he said ‘To believe that what was true of Our Lord is, in its less degree, true of all who are in Him. They go away in order to be with us in a new way, even closer than before.’ A month ago I would have called this silly sentiment. Now I know better. He seems, in some indefinable way, to be all around us now. I do not doubt he is doing and will do for us all sorts of things he could not have done while in the body.
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume II: Family Letters 1905-1931. Copyright © 2004 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis. Copyright © 2008 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
When this writer’s Mother passed away, for days I felt her presence in every droplet of mist and every raindrop. How much more she was with me then than in the last days she was here physically. And while her physical presence is certainly missed, her spiritual presence is with me in a different and better way. May it be so for all those who have lost one they love. And may each of you feel them with you in a better way this day.
In a better way,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
This uplifting response from the gardener who started it all. Thanks, brother. Z.
I’m thankful and appreciative that you still diligently carry on our meditational tradition; and I look forward to each day’s reading each one, as well as passing them on to those deemed appropriately in need of a particular message. We’ve been doing this since our friend sent us the first Emmet Fox in 2004; and I know that others have been helped by the sharing of these “practical applications for daily living” and the uplifting thoughts. The constant reminder of a miraculous indwelling presence makes a very real and positive difference in peoples’ lives.
(Needed to hear this one today… makes me feel better… Trying to “stay on the beam”; and your continual input is very helpful.)
I have experienced the same phenomenon with the passing of our “dearly departed”: The pain of physical separation is real, and it can be hard; but I know that they’re still there — just a thought away (ALIVE and WELL). Furthermore, they are with God, and “have His ear”. Our now omnipresent loved ones are doing great and feeling wonderful… and there is comfort and peace in that.