Loss

There is no way to describe how we feel when someone that we love dies. We can try explaining things but we always fall short, often stopping in a remembrance along the way. The emptiness is real though. I can tell you that for sure. There's a reason for that.

We humans love to be loved. We were created that way. God is love so why wouldn't a little of what He is rub off on His work?

Although we are all basically the same, each one of us is unique. In our uniqueness we live differently and we love differently. We react differently in situations and we love differently in our relationships. How we love is directly proportional to our love for God.

"7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." - 1 John 4:7-12

When someone dies there is an absence in us, in our hearts. We miss the person who is gone. The more we loved someone, the more we miss them when they're no longer with us. Why? Because we love to be loved.

If you have lost someone, draw near to God. God heals hearts and we all have hearts that are hurting in some way. One of the best ways God gives us to heal our hearts ourselves is to love someone else. When someone dies wouldn't it be a great tribute to love others the way they loved us? (See verse 11 above).

Love someone today. Where someone is hurting, visit them there. Where someone is at a loss for words, send them some encouraging ones. The best way to comfort someone, to show someone you care, is to tell them, and show them, that you love them.

Do not love like the world loves. Rather, love like God loved us and sacrificed His Son for us. Willingly. Love until it hurts and then love some more.

The world is desperately in need of love these days. BE that love.

(This was written for the Dobizl family, the Mortensen family, the Volkman family and the Bush family. And all those who have lost someone recently. There is hope and healing in the arms of Christ. I love you all.)

Me and Jesus - Stellar Kart