Ebbs and Flows

My love for you never fades, and so my grief never ends. Like ebbs of the sea, it washes over me. The salt of my tears mingling with the salt in the air. I could live a thousand more lifetimes and still feel this way. Without you here something is missing. The days move on without you and turn to years. Nearly six years without you here is six years too long.

And yet the LORD reminded me today that with every passing moment, I grow closer to seeing your face. I take a step, and I’m one step closer to heaven’s gates, one second closer to your embrace.

These moments hold so much weight; every breath a holy place. The LORD’s presence is here in my pain. I am not alone. Every moment significant, holding those I hold dear. Time keeps moving, and I move with it, simultaneously walking further from the living and closer to the dead. But the dead really aren’t dead, but eternally living. We on earth are slowly dying to be reborn forevermore.

I’ll keep walking this road they call life. I know the ending will be my beginning. Where it ends, you will be waiting with Jesus hand-in-hand.