grief

what if all grieving is for the insufficient life . . .

we were built for eternity.

any life, however short, however long will be cut too short.  any accomplishment will be less than it could have been.  any love will be tainted.  any anything will be less than it was intended to be.  maybe that's the point.  staring down our insufficiencies, that are at the same time sufficient.

maybe it's not to come to the end of a life and say "it was sufficient," but to come to the end of a life and say "it wasn't sufficient, but God used it anyway."  simply to pass the witness on to the next generation, and stand, not with the world in condemning the insufficient--which will go unrecognized-- but to name it as good, with those who have eyes to see.