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"Trust God," he wrote, then he died

Wednesday February 4, 2009

Categories: Catholicism, Family

Amy Welborn has posted her late husband's final column, which he finished hours before he died. It's a stunner. Read it and meditate on it's message in light of what happened next. It's so heartbreaking, but so beautiful. What a gift that man's life and faith was. I am sorry I never knew him.

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David J. White
February 4, 2009 10:19 PM

Thank you very much for posting the link, Rod. I'm glad I have the opportunity to read this.

Alicia
February 5, 2009 11:24 AM

What a lovely column - it is truly amazing how many people forsee (in ways that I can't help but find uncanny and encouraging) their own deaths.

And his point about trusting God and not believing the "big lie" that if we are good, nothing bad will happen to us is so incredibly important.

Thank you for sharing a bit of this wonderful man's life with us, Rod.

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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

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