Leukemia fought back and forth now it came to claim the soul those I cherish most on this earth were to Be consumed at the deepest depths of the caldron but friend you see I know someone he faced death Most cruelest blows and was victories so being human and facing pain and sorrow at such heights I ran To the only place I knew back to the motel in California where he flooded our room with such peace we Only stopped for the night to break up the drive from LA back to San Francisco the bay area it was Christmas but we never made it home who can leave when the very air you breathe is saturated with Love and a peace you have never known before at the time I didn’t know my only sister had died but He Knew so I prayed that for this situation but they always say God is not limited so he did move in their Pain my wife the older sister with his next to older sister and her daughter were in the bedroom by his Side when he peacefully passed the doctor warned that in some cases this disease at death will cause The person to bleed out every ounce of blood God spared us from that horror he only dropped his Shoulder and with a couple of puffs of air he was gone and God helped my wife in this way one of the Books I read to her to get her to sleep is Oma she is a united Pentecostal preacher her story is one of Terrible hardship after being filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues that is biblical way of Salvation her husband an unbeliever tried to **** her three times and seemingly even more cruel he and His mother conspired together and took her five children and one was a nursing baby but she stayed True to God and her ministry grew and flourished the bible says God is a ever present help in the time of Trouble and her prayer and mine was help us Lord for we are troubled he sustained Oma and new babies Born into God’s kingdom through her ministry became her children so God dropped this thought in my Wife’s heart she said she felt like Oma when her brother died it was right it was strong it held while the Storm of death was trying to flatten her the next to the oldest sister the one with her daughters and Husband bore the brunt of this two year battle pressed crushed grinded by what was happening to her Brother my heart bled most for her God poured in the love from the unseen and laughter is like a Medicine he supplied that in quaintest portions God uses clowns to bring relief to pain first you have to Go down in that valley be torn apart then you are given still that which you lack to enter such sacred Ground and add the antidote that will guard and protect those that God cares to comfort it was great to Learn although Joe wasn’t a priest in the spiritual sense he was an uncommon one in the human sense The words of his friends that streamed in told that story and his best friend the next to the oldest Daughter’s husband capped it when he spoke for the family someone special lived among us and now Was gone but he will live in each new day bring those same gifts he shared he didn’t have a lot but it Was All yours if you needed it thats quiet a life in any body’s book I said it before and I will say it again Farewell Prince a kingdom you now have found