August 12

In the book of Ecclesiastes, we are told that there is a time for everything on this earth. A time to be born and a time to die. We tend to look upon births as the adding to our lives. The addition of another person who will fill our lives with memories and love. We see them as happy and joyous times as we anticipate the expansion of those who surround us.

We tend to look upon deaths as quite the opposite. Death takes away. It subtracts from our life instead of adding to it. It leaves us with a void that is not only physically noticeable but emotional as well. We tend to find ourselves feeling less than and deserted. 

Perhaps though, death is really none of those but rather the extension of something far more. Perhaps death allows ourselves to be less tethered to this world and extended beyond the boundaries of what it is simply seen. When our loved one dies, they don't cease to exist but rather they enter into the heavenly realms extending our territories far beyond this earth.

And while there is a time to grieve, lets not let it overshadow the glory of what has truly taken place. Setting aside our perspective of what was seemingly lost from our lives, let's choose to embrace the reality of the Truth....and in that, we find freedom from the grief laying the beauty of joy that surpasses all understanding.