Total Loss?

Fri 22 Apr 2011 Filed in: My Life | Grief Notes | Reflections
It’s been a different kind of Good Friday. I guess I knew it would be because it’s also Matt’s birthday. And yesterday it got a bit more complicated when a Renton police cruiser totaled what had been Matt’s car. Among the phone calls and messages that started this day was one informing me that the car was a total loss.

Total loss. The words seem at first to fit the day if all one sees is today. And I readily admit that there are days when the loss of a son feels very total. It must have seemed that way to another Father and another Son who will never recover from Calvary: The resurrected Lamb that John saw in Revelation looked as if it had been slain, the wounds and effects of the cross carried into eternity.

I look beyond the grave on this Good Friday, and I know that death does not win - even when it feels like it does. The message of Good Friday is not total loss; it is Total Gain.

And the car? The insurance company says the car is a total loss, but they are wrong. I know; I went and reclaimed part of it this afternoon.
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