Life Goes On

I wrote this months ago......

I am sitting here saddened by the loss of two people in just one week, my cousin, and one of my best friend's brother. Thankfully, both were Christians who will be missed, but will be reunited with loved ones in glory. Thank God!

My sister, my Grandmother, and several aunts and uncles will be there when I cross over. I also look at how death, although it has lost its sting for the believer, still is our enemy. What is even more sobering is, life goes on. It seems fitting to suspend all bills, stop all work schedules for everyone who is mourning. Restaurants should give free meals. Police should not even think of pulling over someone who has had such a significant loss, yet, that is not what happens.

People ring the phone off the hook the week of the funeral, and the calls become fewer and farther between as time goes on. I wondered why, and then,  I realized, life goes on. I  thought, "Don't these people know my sister is dead? Don't they know she was only 46? Don't they know my son never really knew her? Don't they know? Maybe they did, maybe they didn't but, life goes on.

I wonder how people don't believe there is a God. Surely they know that the only reason we can keep it together is through his grace and power. What other explanation could it be? The only reason we don't stay in bed for a month after something like this is God himself. He gives us the comfort we need, and the strength we need when life goes on.

How do you survive divorce? How do you survive the loss of a child? How do you get over a pastor's death, as did my sister a few years back, and now my church family in Mississippi? God himself, the God of all comfort who promised to never leave us comfortless, but who said, "I will come to you," is here and with us now.

We keep going because of him, even when LIFE GOES ON.