Pondering of the day, March 1, 2013

Ponderings of the day, March 1, 2013

This morning I was thinking about how many people are gone, and all so sudden. I realize that is the way life is. As the Bible says, “A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted”. So there you have it. We were warned, and it is a natural thing to do, to die. It leaves a huge void in our personal being when we lose someone and it takes years to soften that sorrow, but eventually, we ourselves will follow that path of soaring away to heaven to be reunited with our Savior and our loved ones. What joy that will be!

What is sorrowful is when people can’t bring themselves to believe in a higher power, a life beyond skin and bones. Why could that be so difficult to believe? We believe the sun will come up tomorrow and the trees will get new leaves and in the fall they will drop to the ground, and the air is here for us to breathe, the cycle goes on. We believe seeds planted will produce, that life will go on. How did that happen? Big Bang Theory! Laughter! Ha, Ha, Hee, Hee, I can’t see something somehow exploding and giving life and it keeps on going without a creator, a higher power. People who believe this life is the only life we have will be surprised. There is life hereafter. I believe it. I have had the experience of the Mighty God, and I sought him in sorrow. I sought him in healing. I sought him in joy! I know Him and He knows me.

When someone we love dies, we want to wrap our bodies around them and hold on to them, but they have gone away in an instant; they leave the body. They are already experiencing another life while we wail away for them. We want to reach out and hold them with the heart beating in their bodies, just one more time or 10 more years, or the rest of our lives. It doesn’t happen that way. They are well, experiencing overflowing measures of love and health. The ones who pass don’t want us seeking them, they want us to remember them, feel joy for them for they have graduated into the Forever Eternal home. Let go, and live on until your graduation comes… It will happen and passing on means so much more than leaving behind this world we have enjoyed for a short time. It is the greatest gift and the beginning of real happiness and joy without the misery of this, sometimes hard earth we have been planted on for a time....

 

Written before Chick's departure to heaven.  How was I to know?