In life, it happens when we live with people whom we love so cordially and cherish them as if they won’t leave us. This shows that we were created to live eternally as Our Supreme Creator is Eternal! We were created in His image—living eternally with and like Him! Living together in love is life’s ultimate experience. We are social beings who always wish to be in contact with our fellows! No one was created—or born—to be like an island in the sea!
Have you ever had someone with whom you used to spend special memorable moments either at home, school, workplace, church or elsewhere? Someone you frankly talked to, enjoyed lunches together or dinners? Someone who used to make you angry but say sorry without delaying, someone you chatted with on WhatsApp, someone you used to send nice pictures on Facebook, etcetera. How did you feel when a circumstance was about to separate you both? For example; a job, an international scholarship, relocation, etcetera.
Dear People can be separated by reversible circumstances where they can be rejoined anew. When having a farewell you can say something in the hope of the person departing return. If there be something you didn’t tell that person, you can have other ways of saying it; E-mails, social media, etcetera. You can feel stable because that person will receive the message when delivered.
When the person you cherish is far away due to reversible circumstantial separation, it is obvious to plan dates when you will both have to enjoy together again, special gifts to offer, stories to tell, and moments to share or whatever. When that person is still far, you keep longing for the meeting, sharing and rekindling the relationship enjoyment.
Sadly, what happens when our beloved depart from us, not because of the job, academic affairs or any-other-business circumstance, but death? It is sorrowful to talk about death of your loved ones—we say it with tears-filled eyes! How do we feel when our grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, children, cousins, girlfriend, boyfriend, fiancé, husband, wife or any other person so close to us leave us unexpectedly due to the irreversible circumstance—death [I am a believer of the resurrection day though]? It is not easy to portray the state of someone losing a dear person due to death!
The bitterness of death is that it occurs unexpectedly after a car accident, a certain severe disease, or after a pandemic outbreak or after ‘nothing at all’ has happened! No matter what may be the cause of the death, it is still death, period. Now after death of our beloved, we start thinking about many ‘If’s containing ‘together’—If I had bought a flower to him or her, if we had a walk at the beach together, if we had enjoyed the lunch together, if we had spent thirty minutes together, if I had visited him or her, if we had sung a hymn together, if we had shared the Gospel together, and mostly if I had said, “I love you so much”!
Love is a hard-to-explain divine gift given to humans to keep them together. When our beloved ones pass away, we are used to regret of not expressing enough our love to them! Sometimes, we start talking to the dead that they were so kind, courageous, helpful, and much more valuable to us! BUT what if we were given opportunity to have the dead back to life? What expressions of love should we make! What great love would be manifested! What gifts would be offered to that person! What amazing things would happen!
Good news to you who have someone more valuable—the one you love so cordially! There is no need to wait for that opportunity when the person is brought back to life while dead! You already have that opportunity—that person is alive today! Do you have a gift to give? Just give it before the person is gone! Do you plan a visit? Just visit him or her before the person is gone! Do you have any other thought, word or act of love to be expressed? Just do that before your loved ones die!
Had we used every moment as it should be in our relationships with others, our relationships would become so sweet and strong; sorrowful regrets would vanish and we would live a happier everyday life! Let’s take every moment as too precious to not be shared with love. Let’s enjoy morally our relationships as if they are about to end.
All I know is that I'm blessed. I pray the Lord of Heaven to impart me with Love.
Thanks dear Jacques Favor. You're a treasured blessing.
It alwyz happen when ppl realise hw they should have done before their loved ones pass away! Thanks for the package Jacques. It's very inspiring,