Yesterday I spent a good part of the day chatting with a woman. She was a lovely woman, very energetic, smiled a lot, and loved talking about her teenager daughter. If I didn't know a little bit about this woman I would have never guessed that she lost her youngest daughter to cancer just three years ago.
Ironically on my way home I heard the new Steven Curtis Chapman song "Heaven is the face" and listening to the lyrics I let go and let the tears flow.
The two thoughts I had running through my head were 1) How God's grace and hope shined through this woman and Steven in his song and 2) How I don't know if I could bare losing my daughter like those two did and still be able to smile.
Like many moments in my life it was a healthy dose of perspective that whatever God has planned He will be there with me every step of the way and His grace will shine through. That's why that woman smiled, she has hope that her little girl is waiting for her.
Here's the song. It's amazing. Stop the music at the bottom and grab a tissue:
3 comments:
Thanks Mary! This song helped me not want to pull my hair out as Sophia's been up crying!. . .perspective. :)
I too am humbled by the grace that the Chapman family has exhibited during such an unbearably tragic time. Matt and I got to see him and Smitty in concert last April and I have never bawled so much at a concert. Thanks for such a great reminder that God enables us to do things that alone we are unable to do.
Hug the people you love today and make it last.
Hey, I was at that concert too! I know what you mean about never crying so much as I did at a concert, I wrote a post about it. Good stuff.
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