Just wanted to convey how blessed we are to have such caring people in our lives. It’s not easy to put down our thoughts and emotions over the past few weeks, so I’ll just type some things I have learned…..
Life doesn’t always fit my template.
Life is not always fair. How would we measure it anyway?
I don’t always get what I want.
I don’t always get what I deserve.
When I count my blessings they are numerous.
Sometimes blessings are shrouded in painful experiences.
It is impossible to love someone without a measure of pain.
It is well worth the risk of loving.
The risks pale in comparison to the exponential gains.
People are vastly more important than material goods.
People sometimes show their love and concern in material ways when they don’t know what to say.
People say the nicest things when they’ve said absolutely nothing but were present.
God does not delight in our pain. He understands and can identify with us in it.
You can’t really employ human logic to try and figure God’s ways out.
Faith is not believing to get what I want, but true faith is believing that God has my ultimate good at heart when bad things happen. (that’s a hard one)
True faith is: when my circumstances collide with the temporal, I choose to look through the frosted glass of the eternal.
Life has absolutely no meaning when I live my life with a temporal focus.
People deal with the loss of a loved one in different ways.
Most people want to talk about their loved one even though it feels awkward for you to initiate the conversation.
You should never say, “you need to move on”, because you never want to move on from remembering special people in your life.
Losing a loved one is like an amputation, you adjust but there is still something missing. You are confronted every day with the loss.
There is a finality to death that grips you with a tenacity that takes your breath away.
There is a Savior that takes the sting of death away.
Thanks for letting me ramble a little, Marty
