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by Jason DeZurik

As most of you know, my father, Frank DeZurik, went to be with our Heavenly Father in April of this year. In June of this year we had his Celebration of Life service with family and friends. It was a service of great honor and joy and of great remembrance, and for that, I am so thankful.

This has been an incredible time of pain, suffering, and much mourning, not only for me, but for our entire family. Though it has been hard, it has also been a blessing and a time of refocusing, revitalization, and new life for our entire family. It's almost as if, in my father's death, his entire family line has been reborn! It's almost as if we're getting to know him even more, now that he's gone, than when he was with us. It has been a time of pausing, contemplating, and seeking the Lord in all that we're doing.

This has not only been one of the most difficult times of my life, but it has also been one of the most rewarding times of the life that God has given to me. I am in serious awe and thankful to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I am beginning to understand why I am the way I am and why I think the way I do, more and more every single day. It is because of the great earthly father that Almighty God has given to me. It's almost as if in my father's death on the earth, he has become even more alive. I cannot really explain it, but hopefully this will help.

My father has filled out so many journals like this one over the years with his thoughts, dreams, and ideas that it could take me the rest of my life to get through them. They are in his own handwriting, and they are an incredible gift to me. I am hoping to share not only the content of them with my family but, in due time, to possibly share some of the content with the world.

Here's just part of an unedited excerpt out of this very notebook:

"Awake the Dawn"

How often I have missed spending time with my Lord in the morning as he wants and desires that I call upon him in the dawning of each day. He blesses me with each new morning, an opportunity to tell someone through my actions or words or both about His saving grace. But I walk in fear of my own strength. All too often I try to express and show others His love and spend little time seeking Him in His Word, seeking him in conversation in prayer... If I don't stay in his word and in prayer daily, it's way too easy to say, "I don't know Him" and yet, How true that statement is because I don't spend the time getting to know Him. You can't say you know someone if you don't spend time with them. He wants us to get to know and understand Him better."

There's much more to this, but my father wrote this back in 2003 on May 2nd. He literally wrote this after reading Psalm 57:4-11. WOW!

I hope you have been blessed reading this.

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