It absolutely is ! It's never impersonal. I had a family member that fought cancer for a time. The night before he died, he was in a hospital bed, apparently in agony. His wife was sitting bedside all night watching it all. When the first rays of the sun started shining into the room, he sat up in bed looking refreshed and a little bewildered. He asked his wife, "What am I doing back here?" Confused, his wife told him he had been in bed all night. He explained to her that he had been at a welcome home party for hours where everyone he knew and some he didn't were celebrating his homecoming. One of the people he had never met that was at his party was his wife's mother that had died when his wife was a little girl. He had never met her but his description of her mom was a perfect match of a young version of her mom. He said, "Well. I guess I need to say goodbye to all the people in the waiting room before I go." He named all of us in the waiting room even though he couldn't see or hear us as the waiting room was at the other end of the hospital floor. When the last of us said goodbye, he told his wife, "See you soon. Love you." Closed his eyes and he was gone. Our immortal spirit wars with our mortal flesh throughout our lives. While his flesh struggled to not let go, his spirit was free. God knows when to call each of us home. Most times, to us, it seems too soon. We are never ready to say goodbye, but consider, as long as we are saying, "See you later" to a fellow Christian, it isn't a forever goodbye. We will see them sooner or later and then we will never say goodbye again.
