Thursday, June 23, 2016

Beyond the Rainbow


Beyond the Rainbow                     


By John W. Vander Velden


Each day we are bombarded by the news of some awful thing happening to someone, somewhere.  But when tragedy enters the inner circle of our lives it brings dreadful darkness home.  None can escape pain and disappointments; even illness is part of life.  But when death marches sudden and unannounced in to our lives, the very foundations on which we stand seem shaken.  Life is tenuous.  It is a fact we know, and yet we place it somewhere in the back recesses of our minds.  But when someone close and dear is torn from us…. How difficult it is to face those realities. 

Tragedy comes and it comes sudden.  It tumbles over us like a great wave, pushing us off balance, leaving us confused and lost.  Some will say that faith is enough.  I say yes, in the end we will be righted when the wave has passed, but now, oh now, how will we face…the now… 

Loss is something very real.  Those that have dwelt within the bubble broken understand the very realness of it.  GOD comforts, but GOD does not eliminate the pain of our lives so drastically changed.  Loss is just that…a loss.  Something is GONE.  And if that something mattered…really mattered…then it is a big SOMETHING, and we will suffer at its missing from our lives.   

Yes, there are the promises.  On that we may rely.  But we face broken hopes and dreams, scattered as ashes on a cold winter’s wind.  And regrets, never to be resolved, fester within our own souls.  How do those most deeply touched go on?  How do the parents, siblings, and closest friends face tomorrow?  The world seems a bit darker.  Time moves a bit slower.  Someday, yes someday, we will learn to exist in this new reality…to live around the hole now ragged and ugly.  Someday we will understand…maybe just a part, but it will be enough. 

Beyond the rainbow we will be shown answers.  

Beyond the rainbow there are no tears...for pain cannot follow.  

Beyond the rainbow we will again hear the laughter we now miss…
Beyond the rainbow…   

On these things we rely…and it will be enough.


(367 Words)    6-22-2016/8-24-2020

1 comment:

  1. Yes this is very touching this week 2 children in our neighborhood was ran over by a grain truck we are so much hurting for the Parents Grandparents and others

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