February 11
The photograph shows him at age 24, handsome, healthy and defending his country as a Seabee on Guadacanal in 1943. Now the picture is different. He is 79, sitting on the edge of the bed staring at the floor. He is fighting a different war now and he is fighting alone.
“He didn't do the work," my wife Joy says,"giving up control to God. If we stay in denial we end up alone."
He could still "do the work," but a Bible near his bed remains unread. Joy sits next to him, praying quietly for her dad.
"All flesh is as grass. And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flowers fall away, But the word of the Lord endures forever. (1Peter 1:24)
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