It is only after we acknowledge our inner needs that we can harness the creative energy necessary to manifest them in our lives. What you need you attract like a lover. They are so still and silent. Old cemeteries remind us that until it is carved in stone, realizing our heart's desire is possible every day if we recognize what it is that makes us happy. In Thornton Wilder's play Our Town a deeply poignant scene takes place in a graveyard.
Ghosts comfort the young heroine, who has recently died in childbirth.
When she gets her wish, she realizes how much the living take for granted. Eventually her visit is too much for her to bear. And food and coffee. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. This is the season of Epiphany, when the renewal of light and revelation are celebrated in the liturgy of the Catholic, Episcopal, and Eastern Orthodox churches.