A day of professional triumph and personal tragedy
Today is a significant day for me for a couple of reasons. Professionally, today marks three years since we released GlassFish 3 and Java EE 6. Most of you probably don’t care much about that. Today also marks another three year anniversary of a more personal nature. It was today in 2009 that my dad was rushed to the hospital for what turns out to be the last time. I’ve written several times in various places about my dealing with my dad’s death; I don’t want to rehash that here. What I do want to do, though, is share a song.
Over the past few years, I’ve come across several songs that have helped deal with grief, express thoughts, etc. One in particular, is “Even If” by Kutless. I think the chorus sums things up about as nicely as can be done:
And life falls apart
And dreams are still undone
You are God You are good
Forever faithful One
Even if the healing
Even if the healing doesn’t come
Here are the rest of the lyrics, followed by the video.
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Sometimes all we have to hold on to Is what we know is true of who You are So when the heartache hits like a hurricane That could never change who You are And we trust in who You are Even if the healing doesn’t come Lord we know your ways are not our ways You’re still the Great and Mighty One You are God and we will bless You |