BEYOND DEATH
Rumi's famous poem describes a serene, non-judgmental space beyond earthly concepts of right and wrong, where souls can meet and experience true understanding. I grew up in a christian home. Every evening my family gathered around the dining table and my grandfather and later my father read from the family Bible, we sang hymns and then came the family prayer. This was the reality in my family home. Every Sunday we went to church and about once every three months we camped at church. I grew up with a steady rhythm of christian goodness. Somewhere along the way all that changed. At the time - while everything occured - I could not understand what was happening. Suddenly, after the latest episode of abuse at the hands of one of my family members - a light went up in my head and in an instant ... I made the connections with self, with other texts, with the wider world. I instantly knew what happened over a period of almost forty ...
