Many times while writing When Jesus Answers, I would pause and contemplate the many, many losses in my life and thank my Father for always, so faithfully, carrying me through them all. I thought I had experienced just about every heartache a person could experience, except one, the death of a parent. Then, on May 22, my mother died.
No matter what the circumstances of the death of a loved one, no heart can be prepared for the aching void it brings. We simply were not created to bear such pain. It takes a supernatural, miraculous Love to heal utter brokenness and emptiness. Human love can only comfort us, for a while. What then, would we do without the healing love of Jesus and His resurrection power?
If I did not know for a fact that I will see my mother again and that she is now healed and filled with utter joy – riding her horses in heaven with my grandfather and looking into the Eyes that died for her – I would drown in sorrow. For in heaven, “God will wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” Revelation 21:4. I am so thankful for this “hope” – this confident expectation in God’s unfailing promises in my life, especially His promise that He will never leave me nor forsake me… that I will never be left alone.