When it’s time to say goodbye

My dear ones, a letter to leave you, when it’s time, for who knows, tomorrow or a morrow decades beyond, surely one between.  One of these days…

I love you and have always loved you.  I’ve not always been touched by eternity, but eternity has touched me right now, sufficiently to write this, sufficiently for me to know I can and need to communicate this to you.  Now.

One of the saddest things of life — loss — has occurred because of love.  Loss consequent of a compulsion to love.  Loss, because we were compelled to love.  Our love for one another leads to a chasm of loss.

Love would mean nothing or would
certainly be a thin concept without loss.

Loss is deepened and widened and 
broadened and thickened because of love.

When I’m lost to you, know it is love that speaks loudest in your pain.  When you are lost to me, I know and will know it is who I no longer have that mars the life that that moment could be — for all moments thence to come.  Yes, loss is never really reconciled which is why we need to cast our minds and hearts to heaven.

When it’s time to say goodbye, know that loss’s pain is the mirror reflection of love.  The more we love one another the more the sting of loss condemns.

Please know without a shadow of a doubt just how deep and wide and long and high my love is for you.  Mine is but a fraction of the love that God has for each of us, but you know how much you love me, so you know how much I love you.

When it’s time to say goodbye, I may not be able to utter the words — take it that I have said it from these words.  I think I have left you plenty of words, plenty of sentiment, so please believe.

My encouragement for your life is dare to touch eternity yourself.  Avoid the entrapments of this life and learn to let go of everything you can’t keep so that you can gain what you cannot lose.

It is our thoughts and words and deeds that we take into eternity with us, so take account for each one and don’t fret anything else.

And simply know how deep and wide and long and high my love is for you.  Don’t ever doubt it.