Here She Comes!

My brother shared the following piece when his mother-in-law died a couple of years ago. I thought it was lovely and wanted to share it in memory of my mother-in-law.


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I’m standing upon the seashore; a ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. And someone at my side says, “There. She’s gone.”

Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and span as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There. She’s gone,” there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!”

…and that is dying for those who trust in Jesus Christ’s work on the cross for their salvation.