Day 115 -- God in the house

As Dad continues to fade, we gathered in his room as a family to give him our permission to let go and go to his heavenly home for healing and wholeness.  Mom, Danny and I spoke to him telling him we will be okay and telling him what a wonderful husband and dad he has been.  We told him of our everlasting love for him, and how his training has made us able to take care of mom and the family and we are ready to shoulder that burden for him.  He heard us and squeezed our hands which is mostly his mode of communication, and his facial expressions.  Then we pulled up Amazing Grace on the iPad to play and I began singing it to him, and Sharon, Mandi, Jodi and Philip came in and joined us.  We could tell he was moved by it so we just kept on singing to him and he got so calm.  We must have sang for 30 minutes or more with lots of old hymns he knows and loves.  Then Danny prayed a powerful prayer over him with all of us and it was heaven on earth in that bedroom.  God blessed us as a family in those hour we were in there, and it was so beautiful.  I am so blessed to have such a strong Christian family--what do people do without that base.