Tomorrow will mark 3 years since my father in law passed away. Rocket Man was a nickname he was known for and I watched a video on youtube earlier tonight of someone cover that song. Just as the song was ending I was sobbing. Since his passing, when hearing the song it tends to choke me up and cause me to cry. Due to that I will usually change the station if I hear it because that typically means I am driving and it can be difficult to drive with tears in your eyes. There’s never a time when I hear it now that I don’t think of him. I decided to watch that video with him on my mind and in memory and I almost got through it until the very end and then I broke down for a good 5-10 minutes sobbing. While sobbing, I was also praying for comfort and in my head two words flashed in my thoughts. Jesus wept. I proceeded to cry some more because I was crying not only due to my grief but more in the grief and understanding of how much more of it my wife obviously feels. In case you are not familiar with that line from the bible it is when Lazarus had died, he wept because he could feel the pain humans feel when we lose someone in death. The fact that verse just popped into my head is not coincidence, there are no coincidences.
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