I miss my mom so much it still catches me off guard?

You are standing in the grocery store, staring at her favourite biscuits, and suddenly your chest is tight and your eyes are burning and you cannot explain it to the stranger next to you. It comes at the worst times. A song. A smell. Someone else's mother laughing on a bench. And the hardest part is not the missing itself, it is feeling like you are carrying it completely alone. But the shortest verse in the whole Bible says something that should stop you in your tracks.

"Jesus wept."

- John 11:35 (KJV)

Sometime today, find sixty seconds alone. Say her name out loud. Then tell God one specific thing you loved about her, maybe the way she made tea, or what she called you when she was proud. He is not in a hurry. He already knows grief from the inside.

What is one memory of her that still makes you smile, even through the ache?

Lord, You stood at a grave and You wept. You know exactly what this weight feels like. Sit with me today in the quiet places where I miss her most. I do not need answers. I just need You near. Amen.