Elder Holland Shares the Powerful Rebuke He Received While with His Dying Father on Christmas Morning

[mirkwood]

 

Elder Holland Shares the Powerful Rebuke He Received While with His Dying Father on Christmas Morning

 

On the evening of December 23, 1976, my father underwent surgery to relieve the effect of osteoarthritis in the vertebrae of his back. The surgery was successful, but near the conclusion of it he suffered a major heart attack. Eight hours later he suffered another one. From those two attacks he sustained massive damage to a heart that was already defective from an illness suffered in his youth. By the time we finally got to see him, wired and tubed and gray and unconscious, it was mid-morning on December 24, Christmas Eve. “Magnificent timing,” I muttered to no one in particular.

 

 

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[james12]

I have always loved this message from Elder Holland. I first saw it back in 1996 published by Bookcraft under the title, "Christmas Comfort". It really hit home in 2001 when my own father suffered and heart attack and was in the hospital over Christmas of that year. They were bleak days. But his more thoughtful message, not just of good times but of hard times and the balance life offers, helped carry me through.