death

i keep getting email about my friend sally that died last week. i knew her from a forum (www.davegorman.com/forum) on which we both posted. i started a poetry thread and she was a writer too, so she posted on the thread quite alot. we started emailing eachother about two years ago and discovered we were both christians. when i visited her in august it was to see (for the first time) a good friend. she had been fighting cancer for more than 12 years, but aside from that she had lived a difficult life.

i sat in her home that day and we filled in the gaps about our lives and walks with God. as she told me about her life she shed many tears, and i found myself in tears as well as i saw in her eyes the pain she still lived with that had nothing to do with the state of her health. my prayer as i said goodbye to her and got on the train was that she would not only be healed in her body, but in her heart. now she is.

i know separation was not God's original intent, but rather the by-product of sin (and the reason Jesus made a way for us to be with God). this is why death is so painful for those of us left behind. but i can't help feeling a little jealous of sally who is having her morning coffee with Jesus today...with no more sorrow, pain, tears or heartache.