Hey everybody, Greg Lorry here. You're listening to the Greg Lorry podcast, and my objective is to deliver,

hopefully, compelling, practical insights, and faith, culture, and current events from a biblical

perspective. To find out more about our ministry, just go to our website, Harvest.org. So thanks for

joining me for this podcast.

Well, it's good to be back. And a lot has happened in my life in the last 10 years. And as

it was shared a few moments ago, most notably, the sudden departure of my son to heaven

in the month of July of this year. Unexpected, July 24th. I'll be honest with you,

it was the worst day of my life. I'd like to put a happy face on it and say I didn't suffer,

and say I haven't suffered, but I have a lot. To hear that your son has died is that parents' worst nightmare

come true. No parent wants to outlive their child. No parent wants to plan a funeral service

for their son or their daughter.

And when I heard the news that my son had been killed in an automobile accident,

I felt like time stood still, and all the air was sucked out of the room.

And when you hear the expression, a fate worse than death,

I can say hearing that news was just that. Why? Because if you could

hear words and die from them, I felt that was such a situation. To hear those words said,

I just felt like I don't know how you even live through something like that. What is so hard

is you just miss him. You miss the big things, you miss the little

things, and I was constantly communicating with my son. We were either talking or we were on the

phone or emailing or texting. In fact, when I didn't know where he was, I sent him an email and

I said, where are you? Question mark. Call me, exclamation mark. And he never responded.

And that's because you can't make phone calls from heaven. And that's where he went immediately

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