30 years to cry
30 years to look back
On that last goodbye
30 years to forget
30 years to dream
30 years to push forward
Into this new world
30 years has changed my face
To someone I barely recognize
A child of my own in bed
A few grey hairs
Old memories and faulty new ones
The same eyes...
The same eyes that saw and recognized
The same ones that held your gaze
The same eyes that wept tears
And the same eyes that have learned to laugh again
Sometimes I will look at something totally new
And find that it still reminds me of you
Like a newly developed picture
That was plucked out of a different time
You are gone but you never left
Your shadow lingers everywhere
In my brother's voice
In my son's eyes
In my niece's love of puzzles
In the way I like to draw and we all love music
We all love Jesus
There is an enduring legacy here
Your sisters still talk of you
But they also talk now about their Creator
Someone they never knew without your example
And your mother is there with you now
She wouldn't have been without your words
Most people seem to think that heaven
Is a place beyond our imagining and removed from our experience
But I disagree
It may be beyond understanding in splendor
But I don't believe removed from our experience here
We will feel no pain there, know no worry or fear
How could you with Jesus there?
I think it more of Him giving you 'grace glasses'
None of the pain, but all of the reward.
I feel the eyes of heaven looking down
And they are not God's eyes alone
They are those, like you, who've gone before us
Whose dream it was to see us live, to see us grow
To see us struggle and still look up and say 'I believe.'
What greater joy could there be for those acquainted with angels
Than to see their lives restored by the redemption of those lives they held most dear?
Call me a dreamer, or an idealist, or a fool.... but THAT is my belief of your time in heaven
The Savior breaks the bounds of what men can dream
And He reveals to you what we cannot see
And heaven winks with the sunlight.
John 15:15English Standard Version (ESV)
15 No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant[b] does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
