I am glad that the story about my dad O”H resonated with you. It still amazes me to this day that something so extremely sad for my family, is what strengthed our bitachon in Hashem’s tzidkus. When my mom, sibs, and I said the bracha of Baruch Dayan HaEmes, we truly had kavanah in saying it. It is not something I can explain in words – it was a tremendous feeling of connectedness to Hashem at that moment. It makes me emotional even as I recall it now. Above all, we thank Hashem that He spared us from losing both my parents at the same time, i.e. in a car accident as a result of his stroke. He gave us another five months with our mother O”H, and though it was not nearly enough time, it was a chessed.
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