In an earlier post, I requested prayer for my dad. For all of you who have mentioned him in your prayers, thank you. I'm now afraid that the answer we wanted will be denied to us. We came out on Sunday to see him and enjoyed three days with him, but on Wednesday night he suffered a heart attack and lost conciousness and is currently in a coma and in hospice care.
God, grant me Your grace to love You all the more for all that my Dad has ever taught me, and may I live my life according to all the lessons he taught me of You. God, I'd have loved to see him live several more years, to see Rebecca grow up, so she would remember him, but God, I commit him, and all my ties to him, to You. Your judgments are true and righteous altogether. Thank you, God, for a wonderful Dad. Blessed be the name of the LORD.
Update: Dad passed away this morning (Sunday) about 3am. I'll write a post about him soon, but in the meantime, this blog will be quiet until we return home later this week.
God bless.
Posted by: Jason at November 28, 2004 01:36 AMMay God be with your father and family.
Posted by: Joshua Claybourn at November 28, 2004 06:57 PMJoel,
I lost my father unexpectedly a couple of years ago. The pain is still all too fresh. May God grant you comfort in your loss.
Roy
Posted by: Roy Jacobsen at November 28, 2004 09:29 PMJoel,
I'm so sorry about your father. May God bless you and your family.
Posted by: susan b. at November 28, 2004 10:54 PMMy sympathies.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thess 4.
God bless your sweet baby.
Posted by: Rebecca Empey at November 29, 2004 07:03 PMGod bless you and your family, and may your father rest in peace. I lost my father some time ago and I must say it takes years.
Posted by: Dirk Bentley at December 3, 2004 12:59 AM