It has now been more than eight years since my wife went on to heaven ahead of me. Don’t believe that line in the wedding vows that says, Until death do us part. When you have shared every part of life for fifty years, love doesn’t die with your spouse. I still love and cherish her in my heart.
A Facebook friend lost his wife last year and he posted a video of this song by Casting Crowns that has helped him heal. I want to share those powerful lyrics with you.
“If I had only known the last time would be the last time I would’ve put off all the things I had to do. I would’ve stayed a little longer; held on a little tighter; now what I’d give for one more day with you; ’cause there’s a wound in my heart where something’s missing and they tell me it will heal with time, but I know you are in a place where all of your wounds have been erased and knowing yours are healed is healing mine. The only scars in heaven won’t belong to me and you; there’ll be no such thing as broken and all the old will be made new. The thing that makes me smile now even as the tears fall down is that the only scars in heaven are on the hands that hold you now.”
If you have lost a loved one, look up the song on Youube. If you can watch and listen without tears, you are stronger than I am.