My prayers and thoughts are with him. It is difficult to lose your mother at any age. My own mother died of cancer when she was forty-six and I was twenty three. Now, thirteen years later, still not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. God was and is my greatest comfort however. She died a holy death with all my family around her and had a smile of joy on her face.
I pray that your pastor will feel the same comfort and strength that I was given.
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