Missing love - missing life?

Loosing a friend or a loved one to death is like saying goodbye, an “Aufwiedersehen”, as you know, that one day you will see them again in heaven and knowing that your longing will stop, is comforting, even though the pain still lingers on ...;  but loosing a husband or a wife or a girlfriend or boyfriend or friend, or even a relative or an amazing work colleague, who cuts you out of their life, is like a goodbye forever and like a cut out of your heart. We live to love and to loose loved ones, kills us inside. It’s like a sadness that never ends. Like an open wound bleeding away. It can be dressed with bandages and treated with stronger or lighter “painkillers” for a time and one can try to fill the void with many things, but the pain only subsides for a time until it surges up again very unexpectedly. You may also have left others who loved you or hurt them by your words not knowing how deep the words havea hurt their feelings and how they are suffering, until the same harshness hits you. - These are the times when nothing can replace or soften the emptiness and sadness in our heart. Nothing one drinks or eats or does. Only a dark empty feeling remains. These losses may be a form of, or a reason for, a deep long depression. - This is the time in life where the only remedy that can heal and comfort us is our faith in a loving, trustworthy and living God. No one can ever know if another person will stay with them forever or if one can BE a friend forever, but one can know this: that His love and commitment never changes and never fails, that no loneliness or sadness or emptiness or disappointment can be too much to part us from the deep, warm, caring unconditional and forgiving love of our dearest, friend and savior Jesus. He never fails us ever. His eyes are on us like a mother who watches her children. He gives us the peace of green pastures, if we open our eyes to see him. He lets us lie down and relax in His presence, if we take time to do so.  He is closer to us than any person alive, as He is in us. This may sound too strange to be true for one who has not tried to listen to His heart, but as He is there for All, at the same time in His incredible omnipotence, Anyone can find this joy and calmness at any place, at any time. Nothing can keep us away from this closeness, not even the evil one that tries to distract us. It takes one moment to turn to Him and to let nothing stand in our way anymore. No sadness just peace, no tears just calmness, no pain just comfort and no loneliness just fulfillment, through His presence. He lives in us and we in Him. We are strong in Him and through Him. Not because our bank account is full or empty or if we have a room full of friends or none, or if we have the best job or the worst, whether we are the fittest and healthiest or the geekiest, thinnest and palest, nothing counts, but Jesus,  the lamb of God who carried our burdens until death and triumphantly broke through death and darkness into an everlasting life of light and joy. Nothing can replace Him. So why not seek His face in the midst of our pain, for He is only a prayer away? And turn the wounds of “rejection” to be touched by His healing hand and to be at peace? One day at a time, every day. Live to love and love to live. It’s part of the journey. Don’t miss out!