my hope for eternity

photograph by C. N.

My Hope For Eternity

You left on an adventure without me

So I'm always looking to find you

Around every corner

Life continues on

Children, friends, and neighbors

You have never met

I'm wishing I could introduce you

But you are away on your adventure

One of these days, I will come to find you

Without knowing  how far I must go

Or when the time will be

Around the corner

Mother, father, and others

I would like to meet

You will be there to introduce us

When I join you just around the corner

--For Jared, who inspired me to write this by sharing his grief so openly. I love you--

My parents died untimely deaths. I am the oldest child in my family and both mother and father were gone before my 30th birthday. There are probably many of you out there in my same boat and I write this especially for you and then for the rest of my audience, I write this as an attempt to cultivate that seed of hope for when your time comes to start looking around every corner.

I know that we will live forever with God and our families. I treasure my days here with the family I still have to enjoy, but look forward with a perfect brightness of hope to the day when we can all be together again in blessed, happy reunion.

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