I was asked today how I cope with all the sadness of being a celebrant. Its been an incredibly tough fortnight, with some challenging farewells and life stores to navigate, but overall, each has contained much love and inspiration. So the flippant answer is that most of the time I can cope, on the bad days there is coffee and walnut cake and on the very bad days there is shiraz... In all seriousness - and I hope this doesn't sound too 'worthy' - being a celebrant does show me every day that however tough my life is, someone else has it ten times worse. Today the sun is shining, the apple blossom is out, I had a free coffee at the garden centre... I had a long conversation with a funeral director whose compassion and kindness is so inspiring. Today's ceremony was incredibly moving - so many tears for a much loved person - but even in the midst of such sadness life has much to offer. I was going to start this blog with "Count your blessings", but its not for me to tell you how to live your life. But counting my blessing is what I've been doing today.
Andrew Jackson is an independent celebrant, helping families in Bristol, Bath and the surrounding area.
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