We lost my grandfather last year and it still pains me every day. He admitted to us a month before he passed that he had been battling liver cancer for six months and his time was coming. My grandparents were married for 62 years and not a day went by where they didn't declare their love to each other. I have traveled the world growing up and they were never afraid to hop a plane to see us. If something needed to be fixed, he was the man to do it. If someone had a problem, he was the man to listen. The patriarch of the family. I feel blessed to have had him for so long but somehow that doesn't take away the pain.

My most heartfelt feelings of sympathy and wishes for comfort are with you both.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.