10 years ...

It's hard to believe that Kairou passed away 10 years ago. The pain of his loss lessens each year and the joy of heaven increases each year. Some things we may never know the reason for in this life except maybe the fact that we need to hold onto Christ tighter each day. The following quote from C.S. Lewis' "A Grief Observed" has always been a comfort to me ... He is reflecting on the loss of his wife who he loved and the pain it has caused him ...

“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another. After that operation either the wounded stump heals or the man dies. If it heals, the fierce, continuous pain will stop. Presently he’ll get back his strength and be able to stump about on his wooden leg. He has ‘got over it.’ But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones; and he will always be a one-legged man. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed, will all be different. His whole way of life will be changed. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off. Duties too. At present I am learning to get about on crutches. Perhaps I shall presently be given a wooden leg. But I shall never be a biped again.”