Reunited With Him

8:30 am of Wednesday, October 24, 2007. I woke up at the sound of my phone’s alarm. My eyes were still hurting when I clicked ‘stop’. There were several text messages and I was somehow surprised to see that Elen’s was one of those. This was her first text ever since I changed my number.

I read her text twice. I thought I was dreaming but of course, I know exactly that I am not. I don’t know if I was to laugh or be extremely surprised. Nevertheless, I continued my “feigning of sleep”.

In between 8:30 to 10:30, I contemplated whether to read it again. I was afraid that the message might be true. And, sadly, it is.

Elen’s mom passed away. More than a year ago, her father also died.

She works like a horse more than ever since her husband died. She understands the complexity of teenage life but does not permit her child to go astray. Honestly, I have a certain liking for her. She opens herself a lot and maybe that is the reason why my mother also likes her.

I was thinking what might be the reason of her death. It took me a long while to remember that during fourth year, Elen was able to tell me something about her illness that though she takes medication, she resists it to be treated by a doctor. Or so that’s how it was to me. I attempted to ask her what happened along with where her mother’s body now lays. But I was only able to receive the latter’s answer. I thought I might just be asking her this when the time is ripe.

It was such a terrible event. I cannot imagine why and why them. Two of the greatest people in the world one could ever have is now gone, dead. And will by no chance can ever come back for one to hug again. No “you can surpass this”, “things will be okay,” “it’s alright”, “move on”, “be strong” or whatever words of encouragement will do to somehow extinguish her anguish for sure. The pain, the wound that it has caused her will always stay there, fresh.

However, through prayers, through Him, everything will fall in its proper place. Rick Warren had once wrote, “When you fully comprehend that there is more to life than just here and now, and you realize that life is just a preparation of eternity, you will begin to live differently.”

How many of us can truly comprehend even though there she is already, reunited with her creator?