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Dear
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August
2008
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It has been said that in pain, affliction, and loss, it sometimes
helps to express our feels verbally or in writing, not just feel them.
Such a release seems to free our feelings from the secluded
detention of our soul. C.
S. Lewis wrote at the death of his wife, “Her absence is like the sky,
spread over everything…No one ever told me that grief felt so like
fear. I am not afraid, but
the sensation is like being afraid.”
Last month we informed you of my father-in-law’s health
situation, and asked you to pray that God be tender to him, and that he
not suffer long. On July 11th,
God called him home. He
departed this world as he had lived…quietly, graciously, peacefully,
and without a struggle. Shortly
before 5 a.m. on the morning of the 11th he surrendered
himself, a tired, frail, humble man of 94 years, into the arms of his
Savior. One month after
diagnosis, lung cancer had won another battle.
He drove an old ’87 Lincoln Town Car, and it still sits in
front of our house as a silent reminder of his time with us.
I’m still trying to believe what has happened.
In all of this Daisey, Bobbie, my sister-in-law and I, find our
greatest comfort in knowing he is forever with the Lord, and eternally
freed from pain and aging and death.
Absent from the body and at home with the Lord, he is secure in
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pap, as we called him, left us a legacy of a quiet well lived
life, and a thousand memories that comfort us as we replace denial with
acceptance and praise. “The LORD is good, a
stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him” (Nahum 1:7). Thanks
for the cards, phone calls, food, flowers and words of comfort, many of
you have sent our way. We
are indeed grateful.
Thank you for your personal support and support for home
missions.
Unworthily His,
Wendell & Daisey
World Baptist Fellowship Mission Agency
817.274.7161 .
817.274.2742 .
Fax: 817.861.1992
. E-mail: whiers@joimail.com
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