When a loved one is gone

When a loved one is gone, it hurts for many reasons.

* Because there could be words unsaid. Even if they had been said, perhaps they were inadequate to express your true feelings.

* Because there could be things undone. We always wish we had spent more time with ones we love.

* Because we intuitively know the ideal, how things should be, if they have never been realized, it leaves us feeling empty.

* Because that special bond you had with that loved one is lost; that unique union can never be duplicated with another.

* Because when a loved one dies, something in us dies also. We are no longer the same person without that one. He or she has had a part in making us what we are.

When someone is gone, it is a mystery how it is a tragedy, yet it makes us better. What we thought we understood as important, we now know. When we loose someone we love it changes us to be more like God. We have more compassion, we are better able to tell and show those close we love them; we tend to think of things eternal.