The Unimaginable

There are unimaginable things which are suddenly dropped heavily on us.  Many who lost loved ones to covid a few years ago during the height of the pandemic went through a process of loss and grief filled with a separation which was heart breaking beyond measure.  Of course, any unexpected loss of a loved one is for most of us unimaginable even though we look around and see it happening every day.  Life is a wonderful thing and we fight to our last breath to hold on to it, but it is also messy, unpredictable, and very fragile.   

Our head tells us our bodies are made with an expiration date, but it is mostly a reality which we ignore until ignoring it is no longer an option.  What is true is that the Creator who held us at the first instant of our life in the womb of conception never really turns us lose  We may seek throughout the course of our life to loosen His hold on us, but it is something we never are able to fully accomplish.  It is hard for us to comprehend how fully we are His, how He loves us sometimes despite us, and how His plan for us takes us far beyond the transitory nature of this life into an eternity even now being readied.  

Even as unimaginable things come to us in this life, so are there unimaginable things out there ahead of us in the life to come.  When we remember the words of Jesus to the dying thief on the cross, we seem to get more caught up in figuring out what Jesus meant by "Paradise" than looking at the obvious which is expressed in those words, "Today you will be with me..."  (Luke 23:43)  Being with Jesus in an eternal life is unimaginable for many of us, but it is as certain a gift as death for anyone who like that dying thief on an unimaginable cross is ready to receive it.