My husband died on the first day of the first lockdown, 23 March

My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible

‘My husband died on the first day of the first lockdown, 23 March. I still believe that it was Covid. We had a very nasty flu infection. I got over it, but it went to his chest and he couldn’t get rid of the cough. 

‘He had had a stroke in 2011 and there was dementia as part of that stroke. He had antibiotics and then double antibiotics, but I was worried because he had symptoms of heart failure. I called the ambulance to take him to hospital.  

‘He was in hospital for four or five days. Then he took a turn for the worse. I went to see him. I had to be all gowned up and masked. I knew it would be the last time I saw him. I just needed to pray and talk. When I was praying, John 14.1-3 came into my mind. I’d learned it by heart when I was young. It says, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

‘That helped me to thank God for what was coming next. It helped me to cope with his death, because I knew that there was a place prepared for him. After he died, it assured me that he was in a better place. There’s been a lot of comfort in that.’ 

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