How do we make sense of a crazy world? How can we when there is so much pain? Some people say you have to hold on. I say be still and let go. When my Mom died I could not see how the world continued. People went to work, to school, and on vacation. Kids played, laughed and Government functioned. How could that be? Didn’t they know that my Mom was gone? I could not function so I expected the world to stop. The world only stopped for me and my immediate family. I realized, years later, that death does not stop people from living. Sometimes it spurs them on to live a fuller life. Tragedy can have that effect.

I sometimes get caught up in the loops of gospel songs. These lyrics can run through my brain for days, or weeks at a time. They always seem appropriate and they reiterate what I am currently feeling. The Song “Your Destiny” is currently on repeat. My heart and my mind wants to dissect the lyrics and explore the meaning for each word.

“Your Destiny” goes, in part:

This is not a time to get distracted
This is not a time to go off course
This is not a time to lose your focus
Got a work to do for the Lord

Waiting on the other side of temptations
Waiting on the other side of this test
Is everything you ever dreamed
Everything you prayed for
Everything He promised you that you’d get

Your destiny is too important to give up for anything.

“Some people come into your life for a lifetime, some come for a season” Madea

The lifetime people are never truly gone, they stay in your heart and soul forever. I feel my Mother with every heartbeat. She is embodied within. She lays low until I need her, then I can hear the pearls of wisdom.

The words “I miss her” does not even begin to describe these feelings. You never get over it and it will never pass. Even though they are gone, lifetime people have a way of giving you strength to move on to the other side, on to your destiny.