This past Sunday morning at 9:45am, while I was preaching about the Lord of the local church, she went home to be with Him. Just eight days after celebrating her 88th birthday on May 31st, the Lord called one of His own to Himself. Those eight days were both painfully short and strangely long—short because her decline came so rapidly, long because she lingered when it looked like the end had come. Monday evening was the last time I heard her sweet voice after hospice took over. 

Recently, I listened to the late Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford University on June 12, 2005. Steven Paul Jobs was best known for co-founding the Apple Inc, NeXT and was the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He died at age 56 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. The following is an excerpt from one of three stories he told. Story one was about connecting the dots. Story two was about love and loss and his third and final story was about death (cited below).