I Returned For Thanksgiving To Find My Parents Gone—And My Father Waiting

unfocused, seeing something beyond this room.

“‘The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away,’” he quoted softly, the words from Job coming to his lips like a prayer. “‘Blessed be the name of the Lord.’”

He was finding peace. Making his peace with God, with death, with everything that had happened.

He was ready.

But his family wasn’t here.

And despite everything—despite continue reading …