March 25, 2024

I don’t want to cry. Why not? Well, because he’s going straight from here to be with the LORD, his God and Saviour. It’s what we, all who know Jesus Christ as LORD and Saviour, look forward to, either by natural means or accident.

He’s going to win the race, he’s going to beat us all home, so we rejoice, don’t we? Of course we do!

But also, against all logic, we cry and mourn.

I know, I know, we don’t mourn as the world mourns, they who have no hope. But we mourn as those who have hope, the hope of going home to heaven, each in an individual way and time of God’s own choosing.

(Personally speaking, I’d like to pass on in my sleep)

We only know the how when it happens. Some of us will be given notice as in an illness or disease. Some of us will pass on quickly, or slowly, but we will mourn no matter how, and no matter when.

I don’t want to cry. Why not? Because I want to be happy for him and I am!

But oh how I’m going to miss him. Oh how we are all going to miss him.

And that’s why we cry, and that’s why I will cry.