{"id":267,"date":"2018-02-05T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:44:11","slug":"267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/05\/267\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0“Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.”\u00a0 Proverbs 14:26<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nI just watched “This is Us”, the episode that explained how their dad died.\u00a0 If you don’t watch the show, you will have no idea what I’m talking about, which is completely fine.
\nI am a woman who lost her dad when she was 16 years old.\u00a0 It touched a lot of heart strings for me.\u00a0 More than I realized were still there.\u00a0 As\u00a0 I watched the show, as I watched them tell the daughter her daddy was gone, it broke my heart.\u00a0 I remember the day my Dad died.\u00a0 Like Kate in the show, I have regrets.\u00a0 There were things I could of done that I didn’t, like go visit him at the hospital.\u00a0 I didn’t go that day, I wanted to sleep in.\u00a0 I knew the minute my Mom and little brother pulled out of the driveway I had made a mistake.\u00a0 It was too late.
\nI called Dad.\u00a0 He answered the phone.\u00a0 I’ll never forget it.\u00a0 I was crying.\u00a0 I told him I was so sorry I didn’t come.\u00a0 He forgave me.\u00a0 Then he told me it was time to say goodbye.\u00a0 Somehow, he knew too.\u00a0 I will never understand how he knew.\u00a0 He let me off the hook.\u00a0 He told me he would see me again.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to tell him one last time I loved him.\u00a0 He told me he loved me too and he would see me soon.
\nHe didn’t die that day, at around 4:00 in the afternoon he drifted into a coma.\u00a0 My Mom and little brother had barely arrived home when the hospital called us.\u00a0 We immediately rushed to the hospital to be by his side.
\nHe died two and a half days later.\u00a0 That is how long it took for all of his family to get there.\u00a0 The last was my sister-in-law who came from VA.\u00a0 Her and my Dad a special relationship.\u00a0 He waited for her.\u00a0 It was moments afterwards that he passed.\u00a0 We were all standing around his bed as he took his last breath.
\nIt was surreal.\u00a0 He took one long breath.\u00a0 I thought that was it, then he took another long breath.\u00a0 Then he was gone.\u00a0 I see it as clearly as if it was yesterday.
\nWhen my Dad died, I lost my hero.\u00a0 He was perfect in my eyes.\u00a0 Learning that he wasn’t was a hard lesson.\u00a0 I had him on such a pedestal that when he fell off it, let’s just say it sent my world into turmoil.
\nI was so young when my Dad died, yet I hear him in my head. “If you’re going to do something, do it right!”\u00a0 or “Don’t do it half a**ed, do it right!”\u00a0 My Dad was big on doing it to the best of your ability.\u00a0 “Do it right or don’t do it at all.”\u00a0 That has served me well in my life.
\nMy favorite job is my volunteer job.\u00a0 I love being able to give my time away.\u00a0 I love that God signs my check.\u00a0 He signs my benefits.\u00a0 I love giving it my all.\u00a0 In my head, I hear my Dad.\u00a0 I hear his euphemisms in my head and I work harder.\u00a0 \u00a0My most favorite thing is doing it right. Every time I do, every time I don’t cut shortcuts, every time I hear my Dad.\u00a0 “Job well done!”
\nI’m grateful he taught me how to do my tasks well.\u00a0 I feel God’s pleasure when I do.\u00a0 There is nothing else like it.
\nBut wow, I miss my Dad!\u00a0 So much!
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\u00a0“Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.”\u00a0 Proverbs 14:26 I just watched “This is Us”, the episode that explained how their dad died.\u00a0 If you don’t watch the show, you will have no idea what I’m talking about, which is completely fine. I am a… Continue reading This Is Us!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}