My mom passed this morning

How Long is a Lifetime?





How long is a lifetime? It is one of the mysteries of earth that we have no answer. It is never long enough for those who have loved and cherished that life. No time seems long enough for us to have loved completely, and our hearts ache with the love that we have left to give.





It is a mystery how some can fulfill their appointed lifetime in measurements of minutes, hours, months, or days, while for others the measure spans years or decades. Regardless of the allotment, it is never long enough for those left. How long is a lifetime? The answer leaves us mourning.





How long is life? It is one of the mysteries of heaven that we have an answer. Life is eternal. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.. For we walk by faith, not by sight: We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Cor. 5:1, 7-8) How long is a life? The answer gives us comfort.





1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 7We live by faith, not by sight. 8We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord (NIV)





Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort: Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 KJV




3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.(NIV)