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It will be a unique day–a day known only to the LORD– with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
Zechariah 14:7 (NIV)

I don’t know about you, but night time has been one of the hardest things for me on this journey of widowhood.

How much better it would be if it could just be day time all the time.

I keep busy during the day time hours. Most situations can be handled and I even have fun with friends and family. But the night time always comes! For some reason things always seem to be worse at night: physical pain, difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, bad dreams, strange noises, loneliness and grief, and a review of the day’s predicaments.

Many times I find myself staying up much too late to try to avoid those feelings, hoping they will go away if I stay awake.

However, as I look back, I had trouble at night time even when my husband was alive. In fact, the night he slipped away unexpectedly to his heavenly home, I could not get settled and retreated to “my chair” after a few hours of keeping him awake from my tossing and turning. The difference – I am now alone! How I wish he were here to help me face the nights and discomfort! Even though he couldn’t always help, I knew he was beside me to share those restless night. He often checked to make sure I was alright and willing to do anything he could.

In his absence, I have found a few things that do help like: leaving on a dim light and playing my radio on a Christian music station very softly all night, snuggling with 6 pillows all around me, gazing out my window at the moon and stars and “talking” to Jesus as I try to go to sleep!

But oh, how wonderful to know that night time will not be an issue when we get to our heavenly home!

Can you imagine what it will be like to not experience any more nights filled with pain, fear, loneliness, grief and tears? No need for night lights, music, and extra pillows! And to think that my husband (and yours) is already experiencing this, right now!

There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 22:5 (NIV)

On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.
Revelation 21:25 (NIV)

God himself shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall no longer be…any mourning, crying, or pain
Revelation 21:4 (NIV)

I still don’t like night time without my husband, but most are becoming more tolerable. And the glorious hope I have of joining him in heaven and spending eternity there with our Lord and Savior (with no more nights) makes it even more tolerable.

Lord, help me to never forget You are with me always – even in the night time. Thank You for the hope of one day being in heaven where God himself will give us light – forever. Amen