Monday, September 30, 2013

A Week (and more) Lost

My dad died a week ago this morning.  The Saturday before last, as you saw, he was helping us with the floor in the sunken living room.  We'd had dinner with Mrs. & Jr. that Friday, and stopped by the house late in the evening so Jr. could run around and Mrs. could take the pictures.  He and I worked until about 3pm on Saturday, leveling the subfloor, cutting the panels for the deck, and just enjoying the simple pleasure of working together.  Then he went back to Tucson and we went to our evening engagement.

I will miss him.

He taught me to always use a level, always check square (I didn't always), and to nail straight and cut clean (still working on that).  He was always up for a building project, always patient when I made mistakes (often enough), and always happy to help me fix them right.

He loved Jesus, too.

"And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."   
(Ephesians 2:1-10)

I will miss him, but I look forward to seeing him again.

 Jr., Mr., and Sr., ca. spring 2012.  It was the best photo I could scrounge from the Mrs.' blog. 

"For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith." 1 Jn. 5:4

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