What Has the Loss of Your Father Taught You About Ministering to the Dying? By John Piper

To say goodbye to your father on this earth is a massive thing. To have prayed with others who have lost a father or mother is one thing. But to sit by his bed for a week, knowing that he is leaving was very very different. You rehearse your life differently. And your affections are different, because they are all bound up physically, emotionally, and historically with this man. So it wasn't the same. It was profoundly different. Loss of John Piper's Father