Chadd Wright

He just wants to see you one more time.

Good night, man.

Took a lot of courage for me to go show up in front of him and sit down with him and say, Mr. Don, I'm sorry I haven't been the friend to you that you deserve.

Will you forgive me?

He's laying there dying.

He looks back at me and says, son, there's nothing to forgive.

I mean, just like and then from that point, I'd go sit with him twice a week for eight or nine or 10 hours, just sit right there by his bed.

I read the scriptures to him.

He only had a third grade education.

We read about the gospel and we read about the resurrection and we read about creation and.

The first thing that you learn, I think, when you sit with somebody that's dying is that death is the great foe that sits above mankind and scoffs at our wisdom.

You get what I'm saying?

Death is this great foe.

It is the enemy that sits above us and mocks the wisdom of man.

Mr. Don had built basically an empire within the community he lived in.

He had made millions and millions of dollars as an entrepreneur.

Couldn't read or write.

But he still had to succumb to this process that's coming for all of us.

Like, I don't know, man.

That was like—that just hit me.