If you love me, do not weep.??If you only knew the gift of God and what Heaven is!??If only you could hear the angels’ song from where you are, and see me among them!??If you could only see before your eyes the eternal fields with their horizons, and the new paths in which I walk!??If only you could contemplate for one moment the Beauty that I see, Beauty before which all others fail and fade!
Why do you who saw me and loved me in the land of shadows, why do you think you will not see me and love me again in the land of unchanging realities?
Believe me, when death breaks your chains as it has broken mine, when, on the day chosen by God, your soul reaches Heaven where I have preceded you, then you will see her who loved and still loves you.??You will find her heart the same, her tenderness even purer than before.
God forbid that on entering a happier life, I should become less loving, unfaithful to the memories and real joys of my other life.??You will see me again transfigured in ecstasy and happiness, no longer waiting for death, but ever hand with you, walking in the new paths of light and life, slaking my thirst to the full at the feet of God from a fount of which one never tires, and which you will come to share with me.
Wipe away your tears, and if you love me truly, weep no more.
Saint Augustine
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If You Love Me, Do Not Cry
If You Love Me, Do Not Cry
Don’t cry if you love me
If you know God’s grace
And what Heaven is like,
If you were able to listen
To the angel songs
And you see me among them,
If you were able to think for awhile
About the beauty
That no other beauty can match,
Wipe your tears and do not cry,
If you love me.
Death is nothing.
It is just having moved to the other side.
I am still what I am and you are still what you are.
What we used to be for each other is still the same.
Call me by the name you used to.
And talk to me as you have done before.
Do not use a different tone.
Do not be rigid or sad.
Continue to laugh about what used to make us laugh.
Pray for me.
Smile.
Think of me and pray with me.
Let my name be mentioned at home as before.
Without any exaggeration or distress.
Life continues to mean what it always did.
And it is still the same
The thread did not break.
Do you feel I have become outside of your thoughts
Because I am far from your sight?
No.
I am not far from you.
I am just on the other side of the road,
And everything is fine.
You will find my heart and my love pure.
Wipe your tears and do not cry.
If you love me.
St. Augustine
