This week I heard something that has stuck with me.
“Not everything changes though everything is different.”
When my dad went to Heaven on February 24, my world stopped. Yet the rest of the world kept going. I wanted to shout at the top of my lungs, “Hello people!!! I just lost my dad!!! Stop! Please just stop!!!” It seemed only fair.
But the world didn’t stop. As a matter of fact, life went on. That included MY life. Day after day, things around me were very much the same (whether I liked it or not). The same responsibilities. The same routines. The same distractions. The same sunrises and the same sunsets.
When someone you love is suddenly gone… not everything changes. However, everything- EVERY thing- is absolutely different. We become different. We take life more seriously, yet more lightly. Our perspective shifts. We try to take the best of the person we lost and use it to make the world better. We understand that a moment is to be valued. And those sunrises and sunsets… we look at them differently too.
“Not everything changes though everything is different.”
Not everything changes… and that’s OK. As a matter of fact, it’s kind of nice (and important) that some of it doesn’t. Yet everything is different. Life will never fully go back to how it was before my dad met Jesus… before (insert name) met Jesus. So let’s cling to what matters. And let’s love like crazy.