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  • Someday I will share on my blog the tribute I gave at my 87-year-old father‘s funeral. But one point I am thinking about especially today on Martin Luther King Jr day is this: my dad never held political office, but I like to think he held at least part of the solution to the problem of racism in our country. He taught me that when you meet someone who has a different color skin than you, treat them like family. It’s as simple as that. Treat everyone you meet like family. #mlk #listenloverepeat
  • I can’t even begin to name all those who posted comments, sent texts, mailed cards, sent gourmet cookies, had coffee or food delivered to the hospital or sent flowers and other thoughtful gifts. Seeing reminders around my house of your prayers makes me smile. 💕 . Just look at these gorgeous @farmgirlflowers sent from our @proverbs31ministries @p31obs online Bible study team.😍🌸💜 Thank you @melissartaylor and team!😘
  • Happy Birthday to my second born child and first born son who is celebrating his first birthday as a married man. 🎉🎂 I actually made my first full dinner since moving in the first weekend of December—cheddar-stuffed meatloaf, au gratin potatoes, cheddar-garlic biscuits (can you tell our family likes cheese?) sweet potato casserole, and my mom made coleslaw. Our daughter-in-law @maceyehman made him the best million dollar dessert full of fluffy chocolate, creamy goodness topped with nuts. 💙 . Happy Birthday @mitch_ehman I am so proud of the man you have become. 💙
  • A picture of my four brothers and me after today’s celebration of the life of my 87-year-old father. One brother is biological, two are step, and one is our brother by choice, a former employee of my dad’s whom he considered his son. Any guesses as to which one is my biological brother?
  • Sorting through all the letters I keep in a fireproof box that my father wrote to us back when he used to spend his winters in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I kept all of them in a strong box so my children could have them one day. Some of them make me weep. Others make me crack up. He was quite the character. And every single one of them contain instructions to my children to live their lives for God, as my father did in his final decades of life. . Part of the reason I am doing this is because my dad made me promise, about four different times in the last six months, that I would speak at his funeral some day. . I would treasure your prayers as I prepare my tribute. Visitation is today and the funeral is at 1 PM Eastern tomorrow.
  • My father loved to talk about Jesus. Now he is talking to him, face to face. . He is reunited with his preacher daddy and his saint of a mother. And he is finally meeting the child he and my mother lost before my brother and I were born. . But most of all, he is experiencing the indescribable and eternal joy that will one day come to all those who place their trust in Christ. A place where God will “wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:4) Rest In Peace Howltan Wayne “Pat” Patterson 9/2/1931-1/12/2019 . “Precious in the sight of the Lord  is the death of his faithful servants. Truly I am your servant, Lord;  I serve you just as my mother did;  you have freed me from my chains.” Psalm 116:15-16
  • God has given me the gift of another morning with my dad. He loves to start his day by reading the Bible and also reading the Our Daily Bread devotional entry for the day. Here on the hospice floor, he and I have had our time with Jesus in the morning by listening to some of his favorite old gospel hymns and by me reading him some Bible passages I know he loves. . His daddy (whom I never met because he died just after I was born) was a Baptist preacher and evangelist who at one time road from church to church on horseback to preach at revival meetings. My dad told me he used to sing in a gospel quartet at grandpa’s church back when he was a young man. . One of his favorite hymns is The Old Rugged Cross. As we listened to it a bit ago, I was both bawling and rejoicing as I thought about how these words may soon be true for my children’s beloved Papa Pat: . To the old rugged Cross, I will ever be true, its shame and reproach gladly bear. Then He'll call me some day to my home far away, where his glory forever I'll share. . So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross And exchange it some day for a crown.” ✝️👑
  • My dad has been transferred from ICU to a hospice room. Our daughter made it home from North Carolina. On her way here from the airport, she stopped to get a picture Papa had on his night stand that he told her he wanted by him if he ever got real sick. He also made her promise he will be buried with it. It is from 2001 when my kids—now 27, 23, and 20,—were 9, 6, and 3. I treasure your continued prayers.
  • Please keep praying for my daddy. He is still in ICU.

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