Dad was not one for jewelry or bling

Dad was not one for jewelry or bling.  I would suspect my mother had something to do with that, but that is another story. 

But after our visit with him in October he made a request that he wanted a necklace cross.  I was not aware of it but this is something he wanted.  A staff member of the nursing facility he was residing went to the mall to find my Dad a cross.  He wanted a gold one.  The cross she found was a designed cross with crimson and the inscription of the Lord’s Prayer. 

He made sure people that visited him saw the cross.  A grandson talked about this. 

When the body was picked up from the residence facility that cross was clutched in his hands.

He was buried wearing that cross.

I learned when taking New Testament religion at Abilene Christian was DBR.  Every Campbellite in that class used DBR.  Ok, I needed to know what they were saying because I would have to defend what I learned up north at SNU. Death, burial, and resurrection = DBR.  Not unlike what we believed but the idea that all three had to exist in order for salvation to come.  Take one out and the events would not happen as we know today.  Something we never talked about otherwise.  But something we need to know.

Resurrection does not happen unless there is death.  The burial was a must by law and through scriptures to fulfill Old Testament prophecy. So death, the burial, and with the stone rolled away, resurrection.  The death did not come but by the cross.