Time between Heavan and earth....How this comforts me in my grief....

Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

2 Peter 3:8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.



In my process of grieving I often think of these verses.  I think of mom and how I miss her.  People in general will make reference to their loved ones that they would be looking down on them and proud of them at a special moment in their lives.  And this is comforting to them.  I also think of people who visit their loved one’s grave.  And this is comforting to them.  People have many different reasons to go and visit their loved one’s grave and to go and see their loved one’s in their casket.  My father has always said “it is important to go and see your loved on in the casket because it gives you closure.”  I agree with this wholeheartedly.  It is good to truly realize they are no longer with us.  Eventho it can be difficult it must be done.  I find the quiet times when I am alone more difficult then facing mom in a casket or visiting her grave side.  Although I find visiting her grave side does not bring me comfort to know her body is down there in the ground so deep and that her body is not here alive with us.   Her body and spirit is not here for us to share times and moments together any longer.  When I am in these moments I remember these verses.  I think how mom is now in eternity and time is different for her now then it is with us.  I think of a thousand years is like a day that has just gone by. A thousand years for us is like a day for God who is eternal.  Now mom is with God in eternity and I would have to assume she experiences the same.  So if I live to 100 years (it is possible!)  Then time for her would be like part of a morning for us…this gives me an incredible amount of comfort.  To know that for her it is like seeing her loved one and maybe praise and worship session…then she will turn around and I will be there.  So I don’t think of her looking down at me, or seeing my life or her children and grandchildren’s lives pass by and she can’t say anything to us because she is in the clouds looking at the world below. She is just in the process of hugging her mother, and her loved ones and they are soon to be walking over to a praise session!    This greatly comforts me.  I can focus on her joy and happiness to see these special people who she had greatly missed while she was left behind and their journey went on ahead when they died.  I can’t imagine the joy she will have to look upon her mother who she talked so much about over the years!  I can’t imagine the joy of being in a place with her heavenly father; she gets to move on to her part of her journey that is eternal. To think that our lives on earth is just a small part, like a day or a few hours that has just gone by.  How weird…that the part of our life on earth here where we will experience a physical death is such an insignificant part of our eternal lives.  WOW!