My Valentine’s day weekend (aka single awareness weekend) has been kinda difficult. I’ve been battling the topic of death. Not only are we coming up on the 2 year anniversary of my Oma’s passing, but now also the loss of her sister Christine. Tina passed away Saturday morning around 9am after becoming ill with pneumonia. I am not surprised she only made it a few weeks shy of 2 years without her sister because they were best friends and I am sure Tina missed Oma tremendously (I think we all do). Coincidentally, one of my best friends and I had a deep conversation about death the night before. After hearing my friend’s views on life and death, I realized that a lot of my really close friends do not believe in heaven, God, or Jesus. In hearing her fears about death and the lack of heaven, I was overcome with sadness because I think there are a lot of people who I love that I am not sure I will see when our time here on earth is over. I’m not saying that they aren’t amazing, beautiful, and good people, they just don’t believe in The Lord. I believe that no matter how “good” you are in your life here on earth, only belief in the Lord God Almighty, and his son Jesus Christ, will grant you into the pearly gates. I stopped and thought of all my friends and family members that I am not sure share in this belief and I was overcome with sadness. I want so much for our souls to be reunited and to spend eternity with everyone I love. I am not afraid of death, because I know without a doubt where I am headed and who I finally get to meet, but it’s who I will be able to share this with that I don’t know. I guess God is the only true judge and he is the only one who really knows where we will remain for eternity. The thing about life is that in the grand scheme of things it is really short. The only thing that is certain is that we are born and we will die but it’s what happens in between that is so important. When your time comes there is no reset, no undo button, and no second chance. I am reminded of my one of my favorite quotes from a Modest Mouse song, “We have one chance, one chance to get everything right. We have one chance, one chance, and if we're lucky we might. My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so much to me. I just don't think that it's right. I've seen so many ships sail in, just to head back out again and go off sinking.”
What are we doing with our one chance? And will we get it right?
4 comments:
Keep being an example on how God has given you life and your light will shine bright for others to follow. Keep preachin' it baby, keep sharing His love. THAT is what I am doing with my chance.
Ms. Amy Pirtle... Beautiful writing from you to read. I just read a book (first one I've read in YEARS) that you may enjoy if you get the chance. It's a causing a bit of controversy - "The Shack" by William P. Young which I thought did an wonderful job explaining The Trinity and addressing the question on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? Some comments about it can be seen at TheShackBook.com. It's kind of funny - I was speaking with a customer at work that wanted to get off the call because she wanted to go back to reading it and highly recommended it to me. That weekend I went to Costco and on the huge table of books, as I was telling a friend about the book, it jumped out at me from all the books on the table. That night I was talking to Leslie and she said she was reading a book I just HAD to read called The Shack. I figured that was enough "coincidence" to get me reading it. I finished it the second day! Anyways, hope all is well with you. Take care of yourself! Love, Cindy
Thank you for sharing Cindy. I am thrilled you and Leslie liked The Shack. I too have read it and enjoyed it soooo much! It is a must read for all. It sure does answer a lot of those questions in an awesome story. I can't wait for the movie.
Thanks again for your thoughts.
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Mom, Izzy's sermon tonight was on being the salt of the earth. Being the salt and the light to the world and making others thirst for Him. Amazing.
Nice to hear about your "episodes" with the dog. hahaha
I was looking at the "Sun-Star" and could not find an obituary for Christine. Have you seen one? Sorry to hear about her passing away. It did seem that her and your Oma were the best of "sisters".
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