Jan
23
Ave atque vale–Buddy Wood
Filed Under Ave atque vale
Over the past few months I’ve shared some excerpts from the CaringBridge site for Buddy Wood, brother-in-law of one of our FPC Kosciusko members. Buddy’s journal of his spiritual growth in the midst of brain cancer has taught me a lot about living and dying well for Christ’s sake. I’ve chronicled them in entries such as In Everything Give Thanks, Allies with Your Enemies, and The Hazards of Dealing with Trials.
For the last two weeks or so, Buddy has been under hospice care, and this afternoon I received this:
Friends and family,
Our dearly beloved husband, father, brother and friend left this earth to be with his Heavenly Father this afternoon at 4:18 PM. Buddy’s last moments on this earth were peaceful and filled to the brim with the dying grace of which he often spoke in this garrison. He was surrounded by family as his breathing gradually slowed to a stop and he was taken off at last to a heavenly kingdom where words like cancer and suffering no longer apply. Buddy fought a brave fight and remained a faithful servant of the Most High God to his very last breath. Our grief is great but it is not without the hope that comes from faith in Our Savior and the knowledge that we shall be reunited with him again in God’s perfect timing. God’s grace overflows in the abundant love poured forth on us by friends and family.
Love,
The Woods
Buddy shone like a star–and his works follow him. May God grant more of us such grace to live and die well and, like Buddy, not to waste our lives.
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