Given Time

This is an important truth. I have learned that in truth, we don't want our love ones to show their love for us in big ways. Swimming the widest oceans, crossing the deepest rivers, and climbing the highest mountains seems spectacular - but that's not what we really want. Neither the most expensive or grandest 65th birthday gifts can measure to the time we can spend together for our love ones. Deep in our hearts, we just them home with us. Sometimes, God will operate that way. Suddenly, He decides not to answer our prayers, or fill our need, or heal our sickness, or give us the miracle we're asking for. He's got reasons why He won't, and believe me - they are pretty good ones. He'll just be there beside you, holding you, in a hug, sharing your pain, weeping as you weep. That small comfort will be more than enough to sustain you. Because the most essential truth you already know.