Behold, Reborn, Your God
August 25th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
Johnny,
You’re free. No more wires attached to gadgets constantly beeping what is wrong. No more tubes putting things in and out of your body. No more trying to move only to realize you’re tied to dozens of blinking and gurgling machines. God, in his extraordinary love, has reached down and set you free.
And while we’re stuck with YouTube, you’re experiencing what we can only begin to imagine. Yes, the heavens declare the glory of God. But they are not God. They are not his glory. They only point to it. Oh, to see what you are seeing. To experience what you are experiencing.
Yes, you left behind your tiny body with a heart not right. Don’t worry. We’ll take care of it. We’ll bury it. And we’ll mark the spot as a remembrance of your life you shared with us on this pea-shaped planet.
We’ll cry many tears. It’s good. It’s how we’re wired. But they won’t all be tears of grief for that which we have lost. Some will be tears of joy for that which you have gained.
And our hearts will ache – not for the body you left, but for you. We’ll miss you. We’ll miss the boy behind those eyes who wore those tiny fingers. Someday we’ll reconnect. Someday we’ll enjoy with you that which has to be indescribable.
For now, we’ll watch YouTube to behold that which the heavens declare – the glory of God and try to imagine the full glory of God that you are experiencing.
Enjoy, Johnny, your God.
(Interesting… WordPress does this related writings search and lists the 3 or 4 it deems most closely related below the writing. Out of millions of writings, it connected this one with only one other – the earlier one I wrote before Johnny was born:
