Writing this article is a particular challenge and yet a blessing: my husband, Bob, of 53 years passed away this past week — one day after his 75th birthday. As many of you know, he has had multiple life threatening health issues over many years; yet has recovered from so many! For the past six months multiple strokes have intensified… and though he was up and walking again in September, and then again early in December, the combined weight of all of it came to the point that he had been hospitalized or in rehab for a month. He just wanted to come home and “no more needles.”
There wasn’t adequate home health care at our home in the north woods, but with the help of family, friends, and hospice, we were able to get him to our Green Bay SAM ministry office/second home. The joyful side is that he was aware of Messiah being near and was unafraid. I was able to be present nearly around the clock with the help of relatives and friends and sang Psalms over him in his final hours and he was able to communicate that he heard and was joining in inside. So he reached the number of his days and was ready to move on to the next part of our lives. Yeshua said that “you will not see Me again until you say: Baruch ha’ba b’shem YHWH!” (“Blessed be the Name of the Lord!” -- Matthew ...
