Missing

How do you fully explain the feeling of missing someone so deep that it hurts? It's like words can't even describe it. And no one's advice or "words of wisdom" make the pain go away. The pain being taken away by God or the peace has to come from God, and only from God. But sometimes that pain just doesn't go away.

It's like when you finish a puzzle and there's a piece missing. Or you've finished baking a cake and you have no icing. But even more than a minor incomplete feeling of an unfinished puzle or cake, it's like the roof came off your house, and even as you're busy living in the house, doing things like normal, you still KNOW the roof is gone because it's cold, you get rained on, the wind knocks things over, you get sunburned, bugs and birds and squirels invade your house... What you're doing is the same, but how you feel is different. And you can pretend all day long that it doesn't bother you that the roof is gone, but it DOES. And you just pray to God that He'll put a new roof on the house soon so that things can go back to normal.