Have you ever cried so hard that you felt your eyelids could turn inside out? Your ears and sinuses so full they no longer drain and you've saturated towels and sheets, soaked through with your tears.
In that moment you feel as though you will die, your heart broken beyond repair and you're not sure how you will survive to breath your next breathe.
Every cell in your body cries out missing him and the longing to have him near, to hear his voice and to touch him overwhelms your soul to the very point of death. In fact you long to die, just to be able to see him again. And nothing eases the ache. Not a single. solitary. thing.
Yet somehow. Quite miraculously you don't die. You rend your soul completely. Your body, spent from the horrific sobs, stills and your breathe settles again into a quiet easy pattern. The ache remains, but the intensity fades as sleep overtakes you.
You'll wake again ready to pick up where you were before the grief once again consumed you. Still broken. Still longing. But able to carry on...until the next time.
This is a price of love. This is the burden we carry. This is the world we do not share and pray you will never know.
On January 29, 2015, my life was forever changed. My oldest son, Jake, went home to The Lord that day. The presence of God, His Love and Peace was palpable that day and in the days and weeks to follow. I remember thinking how like, Mary, I wanted to store up those memories like treasures for later. My hope is that through the blog I can store up as many of these moments as possible. Remembering Jake and seeing God through it all.
My heart aches to even begin to try to understand! No words are adequate!
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