Nothing screams “URGENCY” more than a diagnosis of cancer.  Urgent to spend time with loved ones...urgent to live out what is left to the fullest...urgent to not miss one last drop of what there is to be taken in this side of the veil with those you love the most...urgent to know God is seen in all that you do till the very last breath...  Urgency 

And yet the double edged side of that sword is that there is no urgency to see that last day...no desire to see it end and yet...and yet...the one facing those last moments while knowing they are coming...in faith...awaits a greater and more beautiful place than ever could be imagined. 

So it is with those we love dearly...we also feel that urgency to experience every bit of their life as it unfolds...unpleasant as we know it will be...while we do not want that part to be so...we would not miss one second of it...not want to loose that time and that life lived...the pain felt...it breaks us and inspires us all at the same time.  Breaks us in that we are lost in the emotion and sadness that is our own loss for this person.  Inspires us in that it is God who gives us these amazing people so that we all have a bit of Him to see on this side of the veil.  The side that sees tears and pain and hurt and heartache and turmoil and...yes...cancer...that robs us all of those we love before we want to see them go.  The other?  The other side...oh...the other side is the envy of all...no more tears...no more pain...no more sadness...just no more. 

Yes...the word “urgent” just seems to take on so much more than it did when I started writing this.  That’s okay...I am glad...It is indeed God’s way of moving us all along in His timing and on His path.  We will never know how long we have to live in this space until we are face to face with our own mortality.  We are just strangers to this land...borrowing what is not ours until we finally come to that place that has been eternally prepared for us from the very beginning...the place that we truly belong.  Until that time...we will wait our turn...and hold the hands of those who go before us...and rejoice when we all gather together...before the throne...no more tears...no more pain... no more...

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