Longing for Reunion

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A movie was on TV tonight.  “Man on Fire” with Denzel Washington and a sweet, talented 9-year-old Dakota Fanning.  She gets kidnapped and Denzel goes on a vengeful rampage in search of her.  It’s bloody and gruesome and at times too much for my sensitive soul and I turn away.  In the end, Denzel finds Dakota and she is returned to her grieving mother who’d been told her child was dead. (See video clip below for the beautiful reunion scene.)

The moment the two are reunited is surreal and beautiful and satisfying because a wrong has been righted.  A child who’d been taken away was returned to her mother’s arms.  And what better place is there for a child than in her mother’s arms?  And the relief, oh what relief that mother felt in seeing, hearing, holding her daughter close once again.

In watching their sweet reunion, I cried deep tears as I longed so badly for my boy.  For my Rami.  What sweet relief I long for.  On this earth, my longing will never be satisfied.  But oh, how I do hope with all my heart that the promises of the Word are true… that when I am finally called home there my sweet boy will be, first to greet me… arms open… surreal and satisfying… seeing, hearing, holding him close to me once again.

A longing fulfilled.
reunion video clip from Man on Fire