I got a phone call at about seven O'clock this morning and it was a church member letting me know that Madeline Dalton, my pastor's wife had passed away over night. She had been fighting cancer for a long time but it finally consumed her. I know that she has gone to be with our Lord, and more importantly, I know that her husband, Clyde, knows that as well. I know that he finds comfort in knowing that she is in paradise with her creator, and that she is no longer in any pain and has started the best part of eternity. I don't however, have a clue as to how he feels. I couldn't begin to imagine the grief that he is going through, the mixture of emotions and the loneliness. No matter how many family members and church members come to comfort him, he still has to spend the rest of his life without his beloved wife of fifty plus years.
I want to be there for him but I don't know what to say or do. This is a man who I have the utmost respect and admiration for. He has given of himself time after time for people who have been in the same position that he has now found himself in. I have prayed for and am continuing to pray him and I would like to ask that anybody who reads this do the same.
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