Life is so uncertain. A friend of mine passed away this week. She was a young mother with little children at home. My heart aches for her family. And yet I know that God rules and loves his children and he will make things right for those she leaves behind. On a heavenly timetable she will be separated from her family for but a moment, although it seems like a lifetime left un-lived here on earth. It's been an important reminder to me to love those around me and to reach out to those needing a soft place to land. I can only hope I let those I cherish most in my life know it daily by the way I treat them. How fleeting life can be but how glorious are those realms that someday await us.
Regarding mourning, Joseph Smith wrote: “More painful to me are the thoughts of annihilation than death. If I have no expectation of seeing my father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends again, my heart would burst in a moment, and I should go down to my grave. The expectation of seeing my friends in the morning of the resurrection cheers my soul and makes me bear up against the evils of life. It is like their taking a long journey, and on their return we meet them with increased joy."
