Momma, I miss you.
It’s just that simple.
You never realize just how much someone means to you until you’re
separated.
But there are differences in separation. Aren’t there?
Separation can be across the room. It can be around the block. It can
be across the country. It can be across an ocean.
But, then there is separation across the greatest divide. When our
loved ones pass across the barrier between life and death, that barrier is
insurmountable from our human perspective.
Some have said that after Christ beat death at its own game that, “Death,
where is thy sting?” But Despite death having been defeated on the cross of
Christ, there is still the reality of grief and separation. That is real… and,
that is where my family is right now… My Dad first and foremost, and then for
all of my Mom’s children second, and then lastly, her friends.
We are hurting. It’s just reality. It’s just where grief takes you.
Where the lie of grief comes in is this: Nobody else is feeling this
pain. Nobody else can relate to this pain.
Our Savior Jesus knows exactly the pain of our grief. The scripture
explains how.
Jesus wept.
Many of us have read this verse. Many of us have seen it and not put
ourselves in that moment. We haven’t let the circumstances of that moment
connect with our hearts.
Jesus wept.
God understands our pain. He understands it and His promises are a part
of our healing should we choose to accept them and believe that they are so
very true.
I have chosen to believe in Christ as God’s only son and my (our)
Savior. His death and His payment of the price for our sins gives us the grace
and mercy that it takes for us to arrive at eternal life.
And, in that eternal life there are promises that He has gone before us
to make us a place in which to live out eternity with Him.
Eternity is a place that scripture says will not be a place of
suffering, tears or pain. We will dwell with our creator in restored eternal
new bodies and we will praise Him for all He has done for us.
We will be reunited with those that we love that have also given their
hearts over to Him as their Lord & Savior.
Our hope is not in medicine. Our hope is not in government. Our hope is
not in mortal men or women that have claimed some false godhood or immortality.
Our hope is in the only person who lived a sinless life. Our hope is in the
only one who has defeated death and been raised back to life and that as life
eternal!
Praise God for His son, Jesus Christ!
So, yes, I grieve the passing from this Earth, my dear mother. Even
today, I am still shedding tears.
I will miss my Mom until the day when I too will let go of this mortal
tent that I live in.
Until then, I will honor the life she has lived and the legacy that she
has left us. I am confident that when she entered into God’s presence that she
heard that which we all long to hear… “Well done my good and faithful one.”
And I know that she was embraced by the Savior that she loves.
And I know that she was surrounded and embraced by many loved ones that
have gone on before her.
And she was also surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses that cheered
her entry into eternal life.
May we all run this life’s race as well as she did.
That is my prayer.
Give your heart fully to God and go out to seize this day!
Sincerely, Mike <><
