In the past month and a half, Taylor and I have said goodbye to three sweet people who had an impact on our lives in some way or another. Death is a heart-breaking process. It changes the person completely. It steals their smile, captures the sparkle in their eye and diminishes them to little more than a beating heart which will eventually succumb as well. Before you know it, the person you loved and lived life with is barely a shadow of their former self.
We fear death. Fear is a natural human reaction to the things we don't understand and cannot predict. But for these three loved ones, there was no uncertainty. They knew where death would take them and Who would be waiting to greet them on the other side.
Death isn't scary. It is simply the last paragraph of the introduction to an amazing masterpiece that God is writing. It is the sneak peek of our true destiny: to be with and worship God forever. Our lives are important, but death is the first step into freedom--the true original freedom that God had in mind at the beginning.
This has been my winter--cold and hard. But the spring brings new life. Hopefully it will come early this year.
