Life is but a breath...

November 13, 2009.

Klaas Pikkert

He's gone.

His life was full, and everything that he did, everything that he taught, he did because he loved his Lord with all his heart.

He touched so many hearts, he made an impact on so many minds and so many lives.

He was always such a special man, someone I always looked up to, someone who I will never forget for the wonderful, loving Opa that he was to me.

There's no more disease in his body, his body is perfect!

He has no more frustrations about not being able to communicate. He's singing in the presence of Jesus!

Those eyes which lost their sparkle...they're sparkling again!

He's not by himself, he's in the same place as Oma and they're praising God together in heaven!
Dad read this chapter last night by his bedside when we were all there to say our last goodbyes. It was one of Opa and Oma's favorite psalms and I just want to share five verses that are so fitting for this day in our lives...

Psalm 103:14-18
"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them."



I'm going to miss him so much, but this is the best thing that could have happened to him and it's time to let him go, to be with his Heavenly Father.

I love you Opa.