Each night, after work, his son comes, sits by the bed, holds his father’s hand, and watches helplessly while he suffers. This goes on for a number of days. Finally, one night, sitting like this, the son says to the father: “Dad, let go! Trust God, die; anything is better than this.” Within a short time, the father grows peaceful and dies and the son realizes that he had just given voice to a very important truth—a truth about letting go and trusting God. For this man, coached into death by a loving son, Good Friday has just taken place. Like Jesus, he was finally able to give his spirit over
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