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Re: Happy Birthday Timmy
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Originally Posted by Timmy
Well, howdy, Apostolic Friends! Thanks for the hb wishes.
It was sad for me. My father passed away the day I turned 60. Cancer. His last months and weeks were increasingly miserable, but he never complained. Not much pain, but super weak, could barely speak, going blind, and some other nasty symptoms I won't go into.  But the end was peaceful. He just slowed down, went to sleep, and went on to his reward (as they say). (And no, I won't take this opportunity to stir the hornets nest of Trinnies vs Onesies!  )
His pastor, my mom, and I were with him when he passed on, peacefully. Two of my sons arrived soon afterward, and the four of us went to dinner for my birthday, as planned. He would have wanted that. |
Timmy, I am so sorry to hear about your father. What a terrible thing to happen and on a day when you should have been celebrating another birthday. It does sound like your father was suffering and I am glad he passed peacefully. My thoughts and prayer are with you and all of your family.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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