Welcome to the Jeff Kaven's show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and

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This is show 399, a tribute to my father.

It's good to be with you this week my friend. It really is and between last show and this show so much has happened my passed away, three weeks short of 89 years old.

And he's been suffering with Alzheimer's now

for about five years altogether, and the last three years pretty intense and he went on to be with

the Lord and I thought about you know well maybe I'll just do something you know from years ago this week but I got to thinking no I want to lean into this I want to share with you a tribute a tribute to my father and I think that at times like this you can either run from it or hide or you can

lean into it and grow and sometimes messages are really hard to give you know know, because you are in the midst of that

pain and that transition and you are also with other people like immediate family who are going

through a tough time as well.

And perhaps you have gone through that tough time.

And if you have, you know what I'm talking about.

If you've lost a father, mother, or one of your children.

I think sometimes, you know, at least from what I've heard from people,

that that is more intense and it's more painful.

Oftentimes to lose a child, they'll lose anybody in the prime of their life.

My dad was three weeks short of 89 years old, and so he lived a good long life. We didn't think he would live that long because at

age 49 he had a quadruple bypass in fact he had two sets of them and so we feel

very fortunate that we've had all these years with him.

And I wanted to share with you a tribute to my father.

Unfortunately or fortunately deep reflection about the people who have influenced you the most

comes from more deeply after they have passed away.

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