LOVE AFTER DEATH
Always remember-Love has a life of its own-even after death.
My girlfriend buried her husband today after months of hoping and praying and believing -that a medical miracle may be right around the corner.
She fought for his life...prayed for his healing...stood by his side, inside the hospital, during the long difficult months after his near fatal heart attack. She kept us all updated, detailing his progress in almost daily e-mails that were written with the precision of her well trained mind...a Theologian's mind. She kept the flame of hope alive with the intensity of her faith...and her complete surrender to the will of her God, who has carried her through a multitude of personal challenges and motherly heartaches.
But as Judy has learned too many times, sometimes God's plan isn't our plan...Sometimes God is ready for our loved ones...anxious to see them...and happy to give them all the joy and the peace and the Love- that heaven has to offer. Sometimes- God simply says-it is time to come home.
As I embraced her today-before she bid her final farewell, I felt sincere admiration. She is a beautiful woman in all the ways that one can imagine...The rock of her family...strong and determined, bright and articulate...mother and grandmother...strongwilled and steadfast...But today, a little weary, a little worn and wondering what next.
Letting go of Bernie--her soulmate, her housemate, her playmate-her lifetime partner -closes one chapter and opens another. I know she will write a fascinating sequel - because her loss-her Love-has always been her biggest gain. Having Loved someone unconditionally to the very end-through the good times and the bad, 'til death when they parted-that bond is worth every challenging moment in between and the lonely ones thereafter. It is the only letdown that ever makes any sense.
Because as Tennyson so eloquently wrote, "tis better to have Loved and lost, than never to have Loved at all."
My friend Judy has Loved, and lost...with an intensity that will live on-long after her Love has gone -from this life to the next. She truly lived a supernatural Love-that has a life of its own, even after death.
My girlfriend buried her husband today after months of hoping and praying and believing -that a medical miracle may be right around the corner.
She fought for his life...prayed for his healing...stood by his side, inside the hospital, during the long difficult months after his near fatal heart attack. She kept us all updated, detailing his progress in almost daily e-mails that were written with the precision of her well trained mind...a Theologian's mind. She kept the flame of hope alive with the intensity of her faith...and her complete surrender to the will of her God, who has carried her through a multitude of personal challenges and motherly heartaches.
But as Judy has learned too many times, sometimes God's plan isn't our plan...Sometimes God is ready for our loved ones...anxious to see them...and happy to give them all the joy and the peace and the Love- that heaven has to offer. Sometimes- God simply says-it is time to come home.
As I embraced her today-before she bid her final farewell, I felt sincere admiration. She is a beautiful woman in all the ways that one can imagine...The rock of her family...strong and determined, bright and articulate...mother and grandmother...strongwilled and steadfast...But today, a little weary, a little worn and wondering what next.
Letting go of Bernie--her soulmate, her housemate, her playmate-her lifetime partner -closes one chapter and opens another. I know she will write a fascinating sequel - because her loss-her Love-has always been her biggest gain. Having Loved someone unconditionally to the very end-through the good times and the bad, 'til death when they parted-that bond is worth every challenging moment in between and the lonely ones thereafter. It is the only letdown that ever makes any sense.
Because as Tennyson so eloquently wrote, "tis better to have Loved and lost, than never to have Loved at all."
My friend Judy has Loved, and lost...with an intensity that will live on-long after her Love has gone -from this life to the next. She truly lived a supernatural Love-that has a life of its own, even after death.
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