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Be Not Afraid Readinesshe was a cheerful, outgoing person who enjoyed a goodjoke and loved children.Then one day he died from a hemorrhage of thebrain, leaving his wife, Liz, and eight children betweenthe ages of one and fourteen. There was nothingunusual about the way the day had begun. After gettingup early to see his eldest daughter off to high school, hehad eaten breakfast with the rest of the family, and leftfor his job at a nearby factory. Liz was surprised whenhe showed up at the door sometime later, apologizingfor not having helped her get the children up thatmorning. But there was no indication that anythingwas wrong.Toward the end of the morning, however, Jeff, a coworker,found Rick leaning against a stack of lumbercomplaining of a severe headache. It was not like Rickto take breaks at work, so Jeff knew it must be serious.Helping him to lie down, he sent someone else runningfor a stretcher. Minutes later, Rick was not responding.He was rushed to the hospital, but was beyond help. Hedied the same evening, snatched in the prime of life.Everyone was stunned.Ephesians 4 advises us to make peace every day“before the sun sets.” Rick did this, and the same daythe sun went down forever on his life. It has alwaysbeen a source of comfort to his wife that there waspeace between them when he died.