“As the shutters of human history begin to close as if before a gathering storm, and as events scurry across the human scene like so many leaves before a wild wind—those who stand before the warm glow of the gospel fire can be permitted a shiver of the soul. Yet in our circle of certitude, we know, even in the midst of all these things, that there will be no final frustration of God’s purposes. God has known “all things from the beginning; wherefore he prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among the children of men.”
-Neal A. Maxwell O, Divine Redeemer
The shutters have now closed on one devoted disciple of the Lord. David Milner Skelton passed from one circle of family in to another Tuesday Afternoon.
Not many people are honored to be able to call someone using the intimate title “Daddy”. For 34 years David Skelton has responded to the call Daddy as little knees were scuffed, or running to him as he returned home, or as embraced in a Daddy hug we whispered in his ear: “Daddy, I love you!”. By the time he passed away he lived worthy enough to be called Grandpa by eleven precious grandchildren that he adored.
Our frail Daddy passed into the portals of Peace where Father in heaven has promised the righteous will have perfect rest from all mortal problems (Alma 40). As Edwin Markham memorialized we now quote in respectful remembrance of our Daddy:
And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
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