My mother-in-law passed peacefully into eternity early yesterday morning.
She was surrounded in love with my wife and my brother-in-law at her side.
I was thinking yesterday about how lucky I am to have had two parents and two in-laws with whom I bear no ill feelings.
My parents and I had some “moments” but as we grew closer in our relationship to the Lord and farther away from those moments–the moments worked themselves out.
I never had a moment with my in-laws–even when I took their daughter on a crazy five-year ride through my drug addiction disorder.
They, along with my parents loved me right through that mess.
In less than a year, Lori and I have lost 75% of our parents.
Our kids have lost 75% of their grandparents.
Only my mom is still standing…with a walker to aid her.
We are blessed they all lived into their eighties and my dad made it to ninety, but when you love someone immensely, eighty years doesn’t seem long enough.
My point?
Life on earth is fleeting.
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Just over a week ago, my mother-in-law was sitting on her living room floor playing with Jordan.
Now she’s walking the streets of gold.
The immense pain I bear from losing three loved ones in such a short period of time is significantly reduced by the joy I feel knowing our hearts were all at peace with each other and that in a little while we will be reunited in eternity.
Two Thoughts:
- If you are at odds with a family member don’t take the odds to your grave with you. Do everything you can to work them out. You will be happy you did.
- When the pains of the world become unbearable put your focus on eternity knowing that someday everything will be good in that “Happy Place,” Wesley refers to in the opening quote.
1 Peter 3:14, “Looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
