Strength in the Pang of Absence

Today, I will spend the mid-day with my brother, Tim. Then I will go the Heritage Days picnic at my church. Then I will go home and spend the evening with my family. All the while trying to ignore this pang of absence. Sometimes when it's this intense I wonder how I'll manage to go about my life, let alone day.

"Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
For when I am weak, then I am strong."
2 Corinthians 12:8-10