The Early Days
We “miss” you
If that is a word
That can begin to describe your absence
No one will ever understand
This severing of our hearts
Except for us.
A heart split apart
Should kill
Yet we continue to walk and breathe.
We believe that we will see you in Heaven
But we are far from being in Heaven
Life for us is anything but
That is not to say we are without hope
But in your absence from this earth
Hope is a choice that is hard labor
All being said, not for one moment
Would we have missed
Having you in our lives
In the middle of what
We cant even describe
We would do it all over again
We don't understand
We don't believe
It happened for “a reason”
We are left with our questions
And an existence
We never expected or imagined
But some things remain
Your time with us was a gift
You are like no other
Our time with you
Our love for you
Can't be taken away
And because we choose
We will continue to labor in our knowing
That you are with our Father
And that the time will come
That it won't be about
This shattering in our hearts
That we will behold you again
That you still endure
In a far-from-us place
That we can't yet
Embrace
In our torn, broken hearts
That is our vision now
From where we gaze
Over life's horizon
But where our vision is clouded
We will continue to persevere
For a knowing in our hearts
That this is not the end of
The story
This one so harsh and unrelenting
That the telling isn't over
Yet
Our Father will continue
With this unfolding
Of
Our family
Into a forever narrative
That no longer includes
This unimaginable place where we subsist
And even if our hearts
Can't grasp what is to come
It is still a certainty
So we wait
Determined to persist
To look towards the day
When we will be together
Once again as a family
And all will be well
At the beginning
Of our family's chronicle
Lived out in our Father's House.
Amen.
To the One who loves us beyond comprehension.
In Christ's name.
In remembrance of both adult sons of close friends, one murdered, one sudden unexpected medical death...with all our love........