My very healthy 80 year old father had a stroke on Thursday, the 7th. He was air-lifted out of state to Jackson, MS and we were there with him for 6 days.
He passed away yesterday.
It's all such a shock. Please pray for my mother who is devastated.
He was a great and godly man. I just can't even begin to explain how wonderful he was.
My family covets your prayers.
Dearest Sister, my heart goes out to you and my prayers go up to God for you and your family. I lost my mommy in 2012 and daddy in 2015, so I know something about what you are dealing with.
When it comes out of nowhere, death is harder to take than when you're expecting someone to die. I know you are grieving, but try to think of all the good times you had with him. If he was the God-fearing man you say he was, think of these verses...
"Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--for we walk by faith, not by sight-- we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord."[2 Corinthians 5:6-8] Your daddy is no longer in pain, and is in the presence of his Lord and Saviour. He is better off than we are.
I know these words may sound hollow, but he is where he has been wanting to go to for a long time.
