Life Action

Archives for October 2008

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Dear Ministry Friends, A substantial part of my weekend was spent observing (and contemplating) my 96-year-old father in the process of passing from this life to the next. It has been a heart-wrenching experience. We all know that death is not a pretty thing. The frailness. The wasting away. Confusion. Gasping for another breath. One moment clinging to this life and then the next moment grasping for heaven. In my father's case, it will likely be any day now. Sadly, it looks like he is just curling up to die. The one thing that struck me was how much ...