I have gone back and reqad ALL the posts and a few really stuck out to me like the one on grief.
Grief is the opposite of BLISS or extreme happiness.
Your mother loves you even when you are at fault or do something really dumb. This is called unconditional love and it is also one of GOD's traits. Unconditional LOVE for ALL no matter how greatthe offence is that anyone may have comitted against HIM or HIS SON. If they come to HIM and acknowledge their sin and ask forgiveness, HE immediately forgives them and restores them to a relationship of SON or Daughter... And He FORGETS, (remembers no more) the transgression.. Never brings it up again....
I lost my mother a few years ago. It was a difficult time as I preached her memorial sevice. I still think of her often and visualize her in my mind and I hear her voice.
She was aplace of comfort, refuge, and solace. MOM always accepted us and comforted us. No questions asked.
It is that abiding love that we miss when she is not here. The person you can count on to never be against you. It hurts when mom leaves tis world for a better one.
Losing one's spouse is a totally different and more heart wrenching and rending thing.
The very love of our life is no longer here for us. We no longer have SOLACE and comfort with the one we shared all our heart with, and our dreams...
Our world, our daily life, has just been completely altered and we feel so ALONE and we have lost some of our strength that we derive from one another. So we feel not only lost but also vulnerable and without assurance..
Grief is a hard thing. It is a terrible thing. It is a thing thatwill eventually subside, but for many is never completely ever gone..
Some people eventually are able to get through this and move forward in their life.
Those with strong and abiding faith and a mutual hope of Heaven with their spouse, rest in the promises that they will see each other again in God's Heaven.
I have been with many who have lost a husband or a wife and there simply are no words that will make the hurt or sorrow go away.
The Psalmist said in Psalm 30 and verse 5 "weeping may stay for a night, but JOY cometh in the morning."
My heart goes out to people who have suffered the separation from their spouse thru death.
They know real grief. I hope that I shall never have to experience that.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.....
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