Sangha of Auspicious Companions

Love That Has Nowhere Else to Go

The tailor said 150 meters would be enough. One dress each. But the grieving mother looked at him and replied, “I want to give them five dresses each.” There was silence. Then came school bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, chocolates, and name tags — so that each child at the orphanage would receive something chosen personally for them. Ravinder Komaragiri writes of how he and his wife chose to mark the date of their daughter’s first birthday after her passing by “letting love, which has nowhere else to go find its way into another child’s smile.” What moves in this story is not the scale of the giving, but how inconsolable grief can transform into outward compassion for all children. it is through finding a channel to flow love that a grieving couple finds consolation. On June 21st this past summer, sixty orphaned children opened bags packed for them by name. And somewhere, a grieving mother and father hope to see their late daughter in the clouds.

Be The Change

Think of a loss or longing you carry and find one small, specific way to let it move into the world as compassion-in-action for someone else today. It could be a handwritten card to someone who may feel unseen, a gift given with unusual care, or a phone call to let someone know you’re thinking of them.