Why are you cast down, O my soul?

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? It’s going to be okay. One day soon, we will have our lives returned to us and perhaps we will have learned a sobering lesson never to take for granted the people and things we hadn’t realized we cherish. Loved ones, friends, acquaintances, even those nameless but familiar faces along life’s way. Grand adventures and mundane exercises in living. The enemy will retreat and the world will reopen and surely for at least a moment we will revel in the moments that can be reclaimed. Some are lost to the passage of time, but most will excitedly flood back. And then the real challenge begins: maintaining the wisdom we have gained from the loss we have endured.