Today at 12:30 AM Badfish said this in Post #37
"Friends don't let friends die and go to hell "
Hey Gerry, hows it going? That is the greatest signature I've seen yet!
Amen to the signature. I learn so many things the "hard" way it seems. Not long ago I posted a story about a friend that was in the hospital. He was an old vet who was a gentle soul and well loved and admired by all who knew him.
Anyway he was in the hospital dying and I discovered he was in the hospital when visiting another one day. So I dropped into his room to see him and turns out I was the only one he knew for quite some time. Even his caretaker, whom he loved, he did not know. But he brightened up and spoke to me, and since the nurses came to minister to his needs I said, Bill, I will be back tonight and hang out with you, would that be ok?" WOW! He lit up and said yes, and it was my intent to go and share with him the Gospel of Christ, just to make sure he was ready, because I did not know for sure if he was or not.
I was to return at 10 but took a nap and did not awake till 12. Bill died at 10:30! It grieves me deeply to think Bill may not have been ready and because I took a nap....
Well, anyway, I am reminded of what Jesus said:
Mark 14:37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
Now, I don't wait. I held my Mother's hand for days before she died. I had bothe hands on her when she took her last breath. What a blessing to know her death was so peacful because she was well ready to go. I am so grateful to know that, though she is absent from the body, she is present with the Lord, with my brother and my Dad, and one day I will join them there. I would sure like to see all my friends there as well.