I am fine today.
I telephoned brother Teh this evening with the intention of finding out how is he doing as we didn’t talk to each other for quite some time.
The wife picked up the call.
“He returned to heaven November last year,” the wife told me.
I was quite surprised to find out this as he was doing quite well after discharging from hospital June last year. He even visited me while I was warded June last year due to infection.
His wife told me that he was doing well and was just about to go back to work before he suddenly fell sick and admitted to hospital with high white blood count last November.
On the fourth day he was admitted, he fell asleep after having breakfast. Initially, the wife thought that he was having a good rest, but when she wanted to wake him up to inform that she was going to office, she failed to wake him up.
A CT scan revealed bleeding in the brain on multiple sites and he passed away in the evening.
“Go in peace,” the wife told him. Her hope in Christ that he is returning to heaven, our eternal home, made her strong enough to tell her husband that he could go in peace.
John Angell James (1859) wrote about this Christian hope,
It goes with us where all other subjects leave us—to the entrance of the dark valley of the shadow of death; and when every other light is extinguished, furnishes us with the only lamp that can guide us through the domain of death, to the realms of glory, honor, and immortality. Thus it accomplishes what the human understanding never could achieve, by solving the sublimely tremendous problem of man's existence beyond the grave.
The shadows of evening are gathering fast and thick around me, and I find it most consoling, on the border country of the world unseen, to go forward into what would be otherwise a dark unknown, guided and cheered by a hope full of immortality.
Mr. Teh was a faithful reader of this blog. I wrote quite a lot about him on the following posts:
Day +721 : Update on my two friends
Day +661 : Visiting friends
Day +656 :Follow-up
Day +603 : Pray for a friend (1)
Day +604 : Pray for a friend (2)
Day +371: Another car hijack.
Day +167
Day +166
Day +165
Day +164
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