{"id":3969,"date":"2010-10-01T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T19:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:53:15","slug":"goodbye-dad-it-was-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2010\/10\/01\/goodbye-dad-it-was-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"“Goodbye Dad, it was beautiful.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Dad's Passing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

On Wednesday the 22nd, I posted<\/a> about my Dad’s rapidly deteriorating condition and what we were both thinking about as we faced the prospect of his death within the next few months. I asked you for prayer that his passing would be a peaceful and painless transition from this life to the next. That prayer was answered unexpectedly just two days later when the Lord responded with a magnificent divine orchestration of events that leaves me praising God for his lovingkindness. I feel that I must share his goodness so that you can praise him too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Perfect Last Minutes of Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Two days later on Friday night (the 24th)\u00a0I suddenly had an overwhelming Spirit-inspired sense of urgency to see him as fast as I could. When my wife came home from grocery shopping, she found me pacing on the sidewalk in front of our house. I said, “Just drop the cold stuff in the fridge and forget the rest. We’ve got to see Dad as fast as possible.” I\u00a0did not know that he would die that night,\u00a0but I’ve learned to pay attention to feelings like this! I took some things with me to show Dad what I had found while cleaning out his house. We arrived at 7:30 and he died at 8:15. But what happened in that 45 minutes is unforgettable, and it gave me the peace that is sustaining me in my grief. From 7:30 to 8:00,\u00a0as he lay in bed, I<\/p>\n\n\n\n