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15 February 2005
Sabine Van Huffel, Adriaan, tien jaar later. Leven is liefhebben over de dood heen (Adrian, ten years later. Living is to love beyond death) , Gent 2004.
How does one assimilate the death of a loved one, of one's own child? On 28 April 1990, a fine spring morning in Eastertide, Adrian died suddenly and quite unexpectedly. He was just two years old. In this book Sabine van Huffel looks back on the first ten years since the death of her small son and tells how she as a mother experienced and assimilated this radical event in terms of her personal faith in the resurrection. By means of excerpts from journals, collected in eleven chapters, she describes her experience of Adriaan's death year by year and the evolution of her own feelings and thought. In the course of this assimilation process her religious perception developed, an angle on living and dying in which her faith in the resurrection took concrete shape.
"By remembering Adriaan, also in tears, I kept following him where nobody else followed, my heart full of hope and profound longing for a new bond. Thus I experienced that love is stronger than death. For living is about loving. That alone is important and enduring, and sharing that life and that love continues, in a different way: on earth and beyond death."
In this way she wants readers to share her experience and to comfort, recognise and support them in assimilating the death of a loved one by offering them ways and ideas in which they recognise themselves, so that they too will experience that their loved one is not dead but lives on as a source of life beyond death. |
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Sabine van Huffel is the mother of six children and a full professor in the faculty of applied sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven.
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