The Little Moments

Parenting often involves navigating the in-between moments as your children grow older, particularly with sons. These are the times when they reach out to you as they travel to and from places, during downtime at appointments or work breaks. While seemingly insignificant, these moments are precious opportunities for connection. When your child chooses to share these moments with you, it shows that they trust and value your presence in their lives.

Here Today and Gone Tomorrow...

Are they together, or are they simply… gone? I find myself asking this all too often—what truly happens to life after death? Some like to believe we ascend to heaven, reuniting with the people we’ve loved. But what about before we were born? If there was a before, why can’t I remember it?

It’s a lot like being anesthetized for surgery. You drift off, and when you wake, it’s as though time skipped—no memory of those lost hours. Is death the ultimate version of that? Does everything just… stop? Consciousness snuffed out like a candle, leaving blissful nothingness in its wake? Or is it the opposite—do we awaken to golden streets, harp melodies, and familiar faces waiting to greet us?

Here’s the kicker—I don’t have the answer. I don’t think anyone does, not even the most devoted believers. Faith, hope… whatever you want to call it, these ideas help us cope, don’t they? Because thinking there’s something beyond “the end” makes loss just a little less unbearable. Hoping we’ll see them again makes it hurt a little less when they’re gone.

But here’s what I really wonder—when a wife follows her husband in death, are they reunited? Do they exist somewhere together, beyond the veil? Or are they both just… gone?