Goodnight, My Angel Love

This day comes every year.  The day where I have no beautiful words, so I cling to those others have written.  Songs where heartbreak and loss and grief thread together a chorus that echoes the ache I feel in my heart.

Grief may dull with time and become an ache instead of a piercing pain.  But it remains with us always.  I've learned that grief is not an enemy, but our friend.

Although it hurts, without grief, we would be void of love.  It is a testament to the deep love that we have for someone when our hearts ache so terribly once they are gone.  It is a way for our loved ones to live on even when they have flown away. 

Our grief means that they existed.

Our grief means they were loved.

Our grief means they mattered, no matter how long or short their life.

They were precious here on earth.

And now they are precious to heaven.

Such a short time

Such a long road  

All this madness  

But I know  

That the silence  

Has brought me to His voice  

And He says…
I’ve shown her photographs of time beginning  

Walked her through the parted seas 

Angel lullabies, no more teary eyes  

Who could love her like this?

So I will carry you 

While your heart beats here  

Long beyond the empty cradle 

Through the coming years  

I will carry you