\u201cHe who endures to the end, the same shall be saved.\u201d My dad has endured. 87 years old. To be sure, not our whole lives have to be \u201cendured.\u201d Some of our years \u2013 even most are probably happy and healthy. It\u2019s when we \u201chit bottom\u201d or come to the end \u2013 we must endure. The Master gives us everyone and everything we need to make this possible.<\/p>\n
They thought my earthly father was going to die the other night, so my siblings and I (and even lone on the phone) gathered around him. the hardest part was to watch mom give him a kiss.<\/p>\n
Three priests came that night. They gave dad his last rites. It was soothing to know dad is on the \u201chighway to heaven now.\u201d He\u2019s ready for the \u201cfinal frontier.\u201d The destination. The hospice nurses are like angels, keeping him comfortable in his last days. I whispered into his ear, yesterday, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have wanted any other man to be my dad, pappa.\u201d Thank-You Lord, you care for us right to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHe who endures to the end, the same shall be saved.\u201d My dad has endured. 87 years old. To be sure, not our whole lives have to be \u201cendured.\u201d Some of our years \u2013 even most are probably happy and healthy. It\u2019s when we \u201chit bottom\u201d or come to the end \u2013 we must endure. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-daily-meds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}