As the years pass and the end of the journey draws near, I recall those dreams of yesterday. If I could capture them, I would keep them forever.

I remember many that were once walking on the earth with us. Family, friends, and the great and small. Yesterday they were in the land of the living, then Someone came and took them away.

Life is like a puff of smoke that vanishes away and you wish you could just stop time.  But it’s not possible, no matter how hard you try. We live like we will be forever in this place, but cast a glance at your life and grasp it ever tightly as it slips away.

Then comes a day that we thought was still very far away when Someone will surely come for us too.  And we will only be remembered until yesterday is gone, when even those with memories of us are taken away.

Oh, my children will you listen to me, or will my voice cry out to you forever after I’m gone?  Will you remember the path I showed you?  Will you seek the narrow gate? For I sought to show you that which was true when I walked in the land of the living.

Remember, people do not pass away as they say, but in a moment are taken away, and He sees their place gone forever. The day my eyes grow dim and my breathing ends, be assured that Someone came to take me away. It was the King of Kings who left His throne to suffer and die in my place, and it seems like just yesterday that He said He would come back for me.

“Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you that where I am you may be also.” John 14:1-3