To Dan’s wife and family,
We all mourn over Dan, he is not in our midst anymore.  Why this happened? I have no answers, only God knows. We all know that Dan loved Afghanistan and the Afghans so much.  We also know…..dead is not the end, but a new beginning in the presence of God.

We are with you in our prayers, may the Lord comfort and bless you.

We weep, we miss you here,
yet faith rejoices
that you have joined those heavenly voices;
Nature sees the body dead
But faith beholds the spirit fled,
Nature stops at Jordon’s tide
But faith beholds the other side.
 
So you are gone; now life seems black.
And shall I ask to have you back?
Back…and leave the Spirit’s brightness?
Back…and leave your robes of whiteness?
Back…and leave the Rock who feeds you?
Back…from springs to which He leads you?
Back…and leave the heavenly Father?
Back…to earth and sin?
 
No; rather
I would resign to solitude.
I would not ask you if I could,
But patient wait my risen Lord.
Till nature cuts this silver cord;
and He who fashions all things new
Shall bring my spirit home to you.
EW