One Accord's Wife Passed Away 2/6 at 1:07 a.m.

[Droug]

Just found out about your wife One Accord, we will be in prayer for sure! My heart goes out to you my Brother at this time in your life. May God be your Strong Tower through this. He is Faithful to His children!

Love in Christ.

[Scott Hutchinson]

My dearest Bro.In Christ Bro.Rick I will be praying for you and I genuinely care about you and your loss,I love you dearly and I will hold you up to our heavenly Father.

[Scott Hutchinson]

I wish I was close enough to go to the wake and the funeral ,but Bro.Rick please pm me if you need my phone-number if you need someone to talk to as I'm here for you brother.

[HeavenlyOne]

God has another smiling angel with Him today.

There are two angels waiting...

[hearteyes]

One Accord my prayer for you is that Jesus will hold you in His arms and
allow you to rest in His presence. I pray your broken heart will find
healing. In Jesus Name. God Bless you and your family.

[ManOfWord]

Originally Posted by OneAccord

Feb. 6, 2008 I'm preparing this ahead of time. (10:40 pm CT) Our victory is won and prayers are answered. Mrs. One Accord, Lola Faye Crabtree, age 55, my wonderful wife of 13 years, passed away this morning at 1:07 am . Her passing was as we prayed. Peaceful, and without pain. She is with The Lord. All is well. "It has been good, but NOW its better".
Thank you all for praying. Thank you for standing with us. God has not failed us!

Bro. Rick, I trust that you know that I have been keeping you and your wife in prayer! I will continue to keep you in prayer that the comfort of the Comforter will not only keep you but will bless you abundantly. I can't imagine your feeling of loss even in the midst of victory, but I can imagine the Lord keeping you in the hollow of His hand!!

[tcovey]

Praying that God will wrap his arms of comfort around you. So sorry for you loss.

[OneAccord]

I'm going to try to write this because I want God to have glory in Lola's passing. Gonna be heard, but I'll try. Just got home from the funeral home to a very empty and quiet house. Started crying when I opened the door, and, probably won't stop for a while. Please excuse my mistakes.

On Nov, 24,the day before our 13th wedding anniversary, after receiving news that Lola had 2 weeks or less to live, we had prayed. Lola prayed first. She prayed that the last thing she would see before she past was me, her son and daughter gathered around her.

Then I prayed. I prayed that, as she passed, she would not see me cry. I didn't want her worrying about me, so I asked God to "stay my tears" at the time of her death. And I prayed that, somehow and in some way, He would receive glory at her passing.

On Saturday, Lola began to lose consciousness. I last spoke with her early Monday morning. Her eyes closed and she slipped into a coma. Her last words to me were "I love you, Baby". All day Monday she never opened her eyes. The nurse came and said she would be gone within 72 hours. All night her BP dropped. Her body temperature slowly dropped. She never moved... her eyes never opened.

At 1:00 am Tuesday, I felt it was time. I went over and knelt down and began talking to her. He daughter knelt down and took her Momma's hand. In a minute, her son knelt down and told his Momma he loves her. Then it happened:

Lola's eyes opened. After being closed over 12 hours Lola's, bright blue eyes opened and looked at me, then at Sheila, then at Allen. Then Allen leaned over his Momma and said, "You're free Momma, you can go". She then closed her eyes, exhaled, and slipped through the Eastern Gate.

I didn't cry. As she looked at me, I pointed to my eye, and said "Look, Darlin'. No tears. I'm gonna be okay". About 15 family members saw this. Afterwards, I told them about our prayer. I said "If you ever doubted that God answers prayer, you have just witnessed that He does". Her brother, wept, and said, If this don't make you believe in God, nothing will". Another said we had witnessed a miracle. And we did. God answered our prayers to a "T". She saw us kneeling together. And I didn't cry. But most, importantly, God received the glory.

In all my years of trying to serve the Lord, and, at times, failing miserably, I have never witnessed the answer to prayer as real and tangible as this. We wept in His Presence then, as I do now.

From Day 1 through all of this, God has answered prayer many times. No, its not what I wanted. I wanted Lola and me to grow old together, to sit in our rockers on the front porch and watch the grandkids grow. We have a new one, a grand-daughter- due in May who will bear Lola's name. I wanted us to drive across the US together. We wanted to ride the steamboat in Chattanooga together. We wanted to build a deck on the back of the house. But it isn't about what I or we want. It's what God willed for us. Thats what we really wanted. Why did this have to be His will? I don't know. All I can do is trust that His will is just. And that He is righteous in His judgments.

Yeah, its gonna be hard. I open the closet door and see her clothes. A piece of Kleenex she dropped on the floor that I can't bring myself to pick up. A picture, her drinking cup. A shopping list where she spelled "bacon" b-a-k-o-n. Its not really hit me yet. I don't know what I'll do when it does. I don't know what I'll do without her.

[Sherri]

Oh, this post just made me weep! What a beautiful testimony of God's great grace!!! If He answered these prayers, you can be assured that He will continue to provide grace each day as you need it. Thanks so much for sharing such an intimate thing with your AFF family.

[Pressing-On]

Thank you for sharing your heart, OneAccord. I hope you keep this thread going as God and time heals you. We all love you here - respect you!

We will all continue to pray for you and listen to you as you open your heart.

God is good!

God bless you and keep you.....

PO