You look back on your life together and you find it hard to imagine life without her. The years of marriage, so many things done together, the time in the garden, the meals eaten together, time with the grandchildren that was so important. It is so final and so hard to accept. Today we are confronted with the fact that everything in this life dies. We are confronted with the fact that there is death in this world even if we would rather deny it.
Good people die ahead of their time.
People we love do die even though we do not want to think of the possibility ahead of time. Today we are faced with that jarring reality. The realities of this world are very much in our minds today. We live with loss all of our lives. We look at the garden and know that this year it will not flourish like it has in the past.