\nHe wasn’t there at the grave as I was talking with him, but he was hearing me. However, as I was walking to the car I felt
\n a great sense of joy, his big smile, and heard his hearty laugh in response to seeing the gift I left him… I laughed out loud too!
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\nSome shredded zucchini<\/span> that I used as an ice pack for my lunch that day!\u00a0 (see picture)<\/p>\n
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And the other half of the bag of zucchini<\/span> I left on Uncle Kerry’s grave that is right next to Dad’s.<\/p>\n I told both of them that I look forward to when our families can all sit down together and partake of a meal together…with no empty chairs… and no burnt food!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 (Inside joke with Uncle Kerry, who burnt Lynette’s birthday cake on her 13th birthday.)<\/p>\n The gospel is true! May this picture bring a smile to your face and hopefully\u00a0 you can remember Dad’s hearty laugh as well…<\/p>\n With Much love, Dear Family, Today I drove by Dad’s grave and stopped by for a visit. I needed to thank him for being one of our angels helping make things happen faster than the speed of light. Of course, as part of family tradition, I had to leave some food (even though he can’t eat it.) He … Continue reading “Dad’s Zucchini Gift”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,53],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-ancestors","tag-gospel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBringing families together not just through temple work, but through emotional work, is something that I strongly feel is part of the Lord’s work that we are to help accomplish here on earth.<\/p>\n
\nLaReita<\/span><\/p>\n
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