Close your eyes and imagine that in the palm of your hand is a little seed,
And inside that seed is an entire tree.
Imagine that the seed is the big heart of a tree.
Take the seed and put it in the ground.
Water the seed with the rain from the sky.
The seed grows into a tree,
Reaching up to the big blue sky,
Reaching towards the big yellow sun,
Leaves growing and blowing in the wind,
Making friends with the bugs and the birds.
Until one day,
That tree has seen the sun rise and fall so many times that it returns to where it came from.
The tree turns back into the seed,
Back to the earth,
And back into its big heart.
Nothing we see ever stays the same.
Glasses break,
Clothes wear out,
Animals die,
Plants die,
People die.
When we die,
We're like the tree.
We leave our bodies and return back to the energy that lives inside our big heart.
When someone you love dies,
It feels really sad.
I know.
I've felt really sad too.
You're going to feel sad,
And that's okay.
Sometimes when you feel sad,
It's good to be around people you love and take really good care of yourself and just let yourself be sad.
And when you really miss them,
You can try this.
Close your eyes,
Put your hand on your heart,
And remember that their big heart always lives inside yours.
They are always with you.
Remember what it felt like to hug them.
Remember how their laugh sounded.
Remember the things that they said,
The things you did together,
And remember all of the reasons that you love them.
And when you close your eyes and think about them and imagine how much you love them,
You will feel them living inside of you.
They're always living inside of you,
And they are always loving you.
Put your hand on your heart.
Take a deep breath and tell them that you love them back.
