But now I can’t get anywhere to preach to anybody anyway. One day he shared, “I always felt like maybe God wanted me to be a preacher. Homer had little formal education and was unpolished, but he was a deeply thinking man. His sons recounted how he was both a father and mother and they declared, “He stuck by us, so we are sticking by him.” and they did. He proudly affirmed, “I’ve raised good kids” and he did. Years ago, Homer’s wife left him with seven minor children, which he raised on his own. The best way to describe Homer is a graying Abraham Lincoln, tall, thin, his hair combed straight back with sharp chiseled facial features. Homer was admitted to hospice with end stage lung cancer.
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