It is gone.

This is a letter for all those who have experienced one or more of a farewell in their life. For those who the idea of ​​«starting again» and «opening the doors and windows of the heart» –after a goodbye– has been challenging.

For those who stayed in a place, a relationship or a life project; believing that by resisting, things would work, but the reality is that they were left alone –sustaining the unsustainable– because the other person or the other people were no longer there: absent, even when they were at their side.

For you, who at some point have said: «It is gone». It's gone, a dream, a hope, a miracle, the desire to live, the reasons to believe again, trust and love. The peace, the joy, the laughing out loud, the faith left. Time is gone: the years and life itself.

He left. She left. A father, a mother, a brother/sister, a relative left. A friend left. It's gone, the desire to seek God, to serve him, to believe his promises, to remain in him.

For you who have been surrounded by a constant «farewell», you have given up and closed yourself to what is to come, for the reason that you fear that it will not arrive or that if it arrives you will also lose it.

I want to tell you something that I remembered this week, while sharing it with someone whom I love and admire very much. Thunder –they were my great fear on rainy days when I was a child. My mom knew that. Every time one was heard, she would tell me a story: ''Do you remember that we have a house in heaven? I am sure that God must be moving some piece of furniture. So you hear that sound. There is nothing to worry about. He wants a nice house for us.'' Her perspective changed mine. The sound of those thunderclaps was no longer heard from fear. Her words gave me peace, more because it made me see God in complete control.

I think of thunder, lightning and lightning for what I want to share with you today, because these three have something in common, they are ephemeral: they last a short time and they are fleeting. Yes, just like goodbyes... that one day somebody or something just left.

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What is God's perspective on the "ephemeral"? In short, it doesn't fit into what is fleeting or brief. His nature is the eternal, the lasting, constant and perpetual.

Isaias 54:10, The mountains may change places, the hills may collapse, but my love for you will not change. I will always be by your side and together we will live in peace. I swear to you that I will have compassion on you.

God does not say "goodbye" to us. He doesn't love us one day and not the other. He doesn't stay one day and not the next one.

He is staying. He remains faithful. He doesn't change. –This increases my faith and hope!

In life, you deserve no less than that same level of commitment to love. And those around you don't deserve less from you, in that commitment of love. It is the only way that eternity is present in our humanity: that God truly be.

For the goodbye that we have said, whether you see it now or not, they are a "hello" to the lasting that God brings. Nothing that is temporary is worth staying. Ours is the eternal.

Ecclesiastes 3:11, He made everything beautiful in His time; and has put eternity in their hearts...

I hug you and may His peace hug you today!