June 3, 2011 11:15 AM
As I type these words, my father is completing his first half hour in heaven.
Congratulations Dad! You fought the good fight; you finished the race! The joy you dreamed of always is now your prize! What an amazing half hour it must have been! The first half hour, in years, of freedom from Alzheimer's! The first half hour of freedom from bone cancer!
Who greeted you at the gate? Besides Jesus, do you have a list of people you're going to look up? Did you find the kiosk just inside the gate where you could look up the address for Moses or Daniel or Paul or Peter? I know you, Dad; you've been just waiting to get an audience with some of those guys. Does the kiosk include a quick button for downloading the Hebrews 11 address list?
We're happy for you, Dad! Our hearts are breaking... really, really breaking, but we're happy for you.
Our thoughts and prayers are with your family at this time. We grieve with you but rejoice in your father's presence with his Heavenly Father. What a wonderful homecoming that must have been!
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Mark, Beth Anne, Rachel, Josh and Joel
2 Cor 5:1-2
ReplyDelete"Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling . . ." Praise God! Your time of groaning, Stan, is over. You will be missed. Our prayers are with the family in their grief. Jerry and Barbara
Seth, Marci, & Caleb,
ReplyDeleteI know it must be hard to say goodbye, but what a peace it is knowing where Stan is now!
Blessings,
Mike and Shannon
We're thinking of you and praying for you all, as we have been for the past few weeks. We know that to let him go, and say "Good bye," is so difficult, but how blessed to know the destination of your father. "Free at last!" What joy he must know, and how The Father must be rejoicing to have him "Finally Home."
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