People all over the world die every day. But when it hits close to home death becomes different; personal, sadder, even poignant.
It happened to me this week. Two of my very close friends died within three days. One was a friend of fifty years and the other’s friendship entwined my life for sixty years.
I will miss these ladies and their enduring friendship very much to say the least. But I take comfort in the fact that they are now truly home. Yes, I do believe in life after death.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
I also take comfort in knowing that my loss is God’s gain. And that’s the upside of grief.
Happy Sunday.
My Precious Life 
You have a generous nature to allow God to have what you used to have and lost. Loss and grief are the hardest experiences we have in this life, and come in infinite forms. Yet, loss and grief cause our greatest growth. I am trying to be better at letting go, but it never gets easy.
It may never get easy, Roger, but does get easier. Thank you for your comment.