Day 9
And so it begins – life as a “widow” – such a strange feeling.
When we lose a parent we don’t stop being their child.
When we lose a child we don’t cease to be a parent.
Yet when we lose a spouse we are no longer a wife or husband.
But I still “feel” married.
When the Sadducees come to Jesus with their trick question regarding a woman who is married to seven brothers – one after the other as each one dies – leaving her a widow with no children – they end with this question: “At the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven?
Jesus responded in Matthew 22:29-30
Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage,
but are as the angels of God in heaven.
The commentary from The Interpreter’s Bible explains it this way:
Here Christ does not break the bonds of human love: He strengthens them. He says that hereafter the bonds shall be of finer texture, and that love shall have a truer and holier instrumentalities. We shall know our loved ones – with eyes not filmed by flesh, and with surer faith.
There human love shall be transfigured – not lost, but redeemed in the resurrection promised in the gospel.
I may not fully understand this, but I trust.
I trust God’s plan for me – for us.
So I celebrate Olin’s transition.
He no longer hurts.
His body is healed.
His spirit knows true peace – the peace that is beyond human understanding.
He knows true JOY – for he cannot be in Your Presence and not experience JOY.
Lord, let him know that we are in Your care.
Yes, we hurt. Yes, we miss him. But we know where he is.
Lord, there is an empty space within me.
Fill it, O God, give me more of You.
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