And a great man has gone beyond

[ishte]

That would be my Dad, who passed away at about 9:30 this evening.  I don't really have a lot to say about it right now.  Kind of numb.  The thing is... He was just trapped inside that body... to the point where he couldn't even get out enough to acknowledge most of us... so now, he's out of it.  He's not trapped in there any more. He's not suffering.  I can sense him around me.  I have his song in my heart.

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Everything went very smoothly. The service was nice. Simple and clean s they say. What Dad would have wanted. The preacher based his talks in Solomon's Ecclesiastes where he was talking about how men should enjoy life to the fullest every day that they had, and do so within the bounds of the written law. That was something my dad did... I mean, this time last year, at 77 he was taking a painting class in Arizona. He would have appreciated the simplicity of the message. NO fire and brimstone. I appreciated that.

I'm doing okay. Really, at this point we're just relieved that he's not suffering any longer, though we were glad he held on until mom was well enough to go see him. We're all pretty sure that was what he was waiting for. Once she'd been to see him,it was less than a day. She saw him Monday evening, and again Tuesday afternoon, and then he was gone by about 9:30 Tuesday evening.

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My brother delivered a really stunning eulogy that he wrote himself. He said everything that I would have said, and I never knew he could write so well, or speak so eloquently. I'm trying to figure out when that happened. I'm going to ask him for a copy and will probably post it later because it says so much. I'll make a post later about the service in general because it was really nicely done. I was so afraid that man was going to start talking hellfire and brimstone and I so did not want that for my dad because even if I believed in *that place* I have no reason to think my Dad would have in any way gotten there to see it.