The poem, "the last time" written by an unknown person caught my eye. The poem speaks to the last time one may do something with their child without knowing it will be the last time, as the child is growing up and away...
It hit me differently....as the last time one may see a loved one and not know it...
It reminded me of two mothers I know, one young with a young daughter with cancer...the last time she held her before giving her over to the arms of Jesus...
Another, expecting to meet her daughter after a short drive, only to find out there had been a fatal accident of which her daughter was the fatality....
I am sure that those two mothers thought of those last times with their daughters....
Or others, visiting parents, spouses, children that last time...those long hugs....of all the lifetimes of picture in our minds, memories now, to be viewed later when we aren't so numb...to be viewed later when we can heal in their midst and savor them...
I am so thankful that God has given me the opportunity to do that...looking through mountains of pictures, it seems, chuckle at forgotten jokes, cry over long ago love letters, relish the smell of a fifty year old corsage, heal from those "last times"....but yet pass on to others the essence of people who have gone before....passing on life, beliefs, passions....
We aren't to get caught up in endless genealogies ....but assimilate our lives in Christ, passing on the wisdom we may have learned, praying for future generations as Christ prayed for us...as I know that some of my ancestors did...that those who come after will pick up the sword of the Word and move forward in Christ...till that last time...
It reminds me of the disciples watching Jesus ascend into heaven, what must have been their thoughts...was there a last question in their minds...a wishing for one last touch...another word...a worried moment of "what now?"....or "why didn't I listen more"....a "don't go" .....the last time....on earth...
Thank YOU for those "last times".... Help me make each moment count...
1 Timothy 1:3-5 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith. The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Acts 1:9-11 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
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