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Not any one finds it simple to resume life after the death of a close friend, sister, brother, parent, partner or child. Each brings its own hurt and agony and difficulty in learning how to deal with death. The power of the loss will change quite a bit. My thoughts after the loss of a best pal were different from the loss of my folks and those losses were significantly different than the death of my spouse.

I was with my best friend just a couple of hours before he died. I can recollect him pulling at the sheets and being really agitated. I sat beside him and held him for a considerable time while making an attempt to provide comfort to my pal and comfort to his other half. It was troublesome for her to witness her husband struggling and to understand the end was near.

Sitting and staying with my mum in the hospice during her last five days and nights was quite a different experience. I recall taking a look at her quite often times to determine if she was still breathing. She was so ready to go home to heaven; and that helped everybody who adored her. However, watching your mother struggle to breathe during her last hours is never easy.

My pop, a awesome 86 year old man who had lived a full life, died 6 years later with lung issues. He was also ready to go home. He had missed my mom very over those last six years. I wished I had known then what I know today. We furnished him a good life but I failed to realize the hurt he was going through. The night he died, I was alone with him for the last four hours of his life. I held him in my arms during those last hours, just he and I. I was able to tell him what a great pop he'd been and how much I loved him. What a privilege to get to hold him and to hear the death rattle. It got so sweet because I knew where he was headed, to see his Jesus and to see the old lady.

I grew thru these experiences yet, they did not prepare me for the most important loss of my life. My prior better half of TWENTY-SEVEN years was assessed with stage 4 cancer. 10 weeks later she also returned home, just like my mate, my mum and my pop. This experience, unlike the others, rocked me to my core. It is a story all its own. Some moments I could smile, but at times the grief was all consuming. I would feel encircled in a box; respiring, merely surviving was all I could manage. It was as if I could only take one step at a time. It was in this experience that God began to mold, form, and change me beyond anything I might have imagined. He was preparing me to accomplish His work through my life.

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