Resurrection Day!

Master, As I sit at your feet this morning, I am broken. One of the greatest blessings you ever gave to my life just slipped through my fingers, and no matter how I want it back, it is gone. I feel such a hole in my heart, a vacancy with a sign over it, “Unable to be filled.” I cannot relive what was. The years, the days, the moments left me with memories but the substance lies buried beneath the soil. I MISS HIM!!!! I drove down the drive yesterday and the pasture was empty and I ached. I cried but my tears did not cause him to reappear. My heart is broken for David. I didn’t know how having the responsibility for burying Rocky would affect him. I sat with Rocky in his stall until David had dug out the place where he would be buried underneath the most beautiful oak in the pasture. Then he made me leave. I was thinking so much about Rocky that I forgot to think about David. But he spilled his heart to me last night and I ached for him, although, to be honest, I would still not have wanted anyone else to do the job and neither would he. He said, “Sometimes it’s just very hard to do a man’s job.” While I was thanking God so much that He gave me a man child who was capable of such things, I guess I forgot that this man child also has a heart! David said that though he has buried other horses before, this was just not in any way the same. He can hardly remember life when Rocky was not there. He wanted to show the utmost respect for Rocky and it just felt so wrong to lay his body in a grave. He said it took him forever to adjust Rocky’s 1000 lb. body to a position where he looked comfortable. It felt so wrong to cover him with dirt. It wrenched his precious heart. He knew it was just a shell now, but it was the body he had loved for so long, and it just hurt! He said his thought was, “Someday, this will be me!” There is just nothing right about death. Romans 8 comforts me. “Against it’s will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in the glorious freedom from death and decay…” God’s creation and God’s children…. And so….the entire created world is in bondage to death and decay and that is the reality of life. But, thanks be to God, who became accursed for us, took on death, and conquered it!!!! Thanks be to God for Resurrection Day! Thanks be to God that all Your creation will someday be released from the curse of death and will join God’s children in resurrection to eternal life!! Thanks be to God that, because He lives, all His creation will live again! Dat’s what da Bible say! Uh huh!!! (I’m smiling now!!!) 🙂 “Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of JOY comes in the morning!!!” Ps. 30:5