Tag: grief
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 7
I once went to a church with a friend, where eventually everyone was jumping up and down to the music. They were smiling and shouting like they were in heaven on earth. Thing is though, that we couldn’t stay there. My friend, as I recall, had a pretty tough time of it in ordinary life…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 6
I swallowed hard and looked away as a tear came to my eye. Of course, I thought, maybe that’s her mommy in the casket. I had not had time for thought of all of the family connections of my lost loved one. Friends…dear and rare friends… become just like family. We don’t really know them.…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 5
[In case you are joining our serial short story about grief a little late, here is a link to the beginning.] “Do you see all those stars,” the little girl asked? “There are more of them in heaven than sand on the beach. Know how I know?” I nodded that I didn’t and her dad…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 4
When we were children, all of us remember “visiting” some favorite great grandpa, or grandma, or aunt or cousin… (The connections of the generations do keep getting closer, don’t they?) … and we had to file past an open coffin with a corpse, all the time thinking things like, ‘Grandpa never wore a suit,’ or…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 3
As I looked about the church, I noticed a former love of my youth and recalled retreat from my initial impression. I looked forward with some hesitation to some later inevitable conversation between us. I thought of others about whom I had also been quite mistaken: some by positive first impression, others by discovery of…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 2
(In case you are just joining us: https://talkofjesus.com/grief-a-picture-of-heaven-prologue/) In days long past I had experienced love at first sight. The initial picture of my lover and the happy endings of our life had been one of grand ceremony; great recognition and perfection of a bride, processing down that long aisle, adored by her groom and taken…