How a person can be here one day and gone the next...
How the people we love and often take for granted can be taken from us very suddenly....
How we should live each day as if it was our last one here on earth...
Very early this morning (around 3:00am), one of our dear PAFCOE students went to her rest in Jesus... Here's the story:
She was seemingly in perfect health all day Sabbath and was her usual happy, cheerful self. She was a good leader in her church and also in her family's business and ministry. A real joy to be around, Aileen Jamandre will definitely be missed by her family, church friends, classmates and teachers of PAFCOE.
Sunday morning, very early, Aileen Jamandre had terrible chest pains and was taken to the hospital. I don't understand all the details of how everything happened, but it seemed she had a heart attack or stroke. (Some of the details may not be totally correct, but this is my understanding of what took place.) Her blood pressure went down to 40/40... She was admitted into the ICU very shortly after entering the hospital. After class in the afternoon, Dad and I went to visit her in the hospital. I was not expecting to be let into the ICU, but after waiting for what seemed like an eternity, we were! Mr. and Mrs. Prewitt, Dad and I and Aileen's Mom donned some strange gowns and entered in to see her. She was just about to have some procedure that I'd never heard of before, but the Doctor allowed Dad and the rest of us to speak a few words to her and pray with her. She was conscious and seemed glad we were there. Dad prayed with her and encouraged her. As we were leaving, her blood pressure was going up and everything was looking favorable. It might be a long uphill, but we felt she was on the road to recovery!
Then early this morning, we received the text message that Aileen Jamandre at age 52, had passed away. She'd had kidney failure and was not able to recover from it. She left behind two young people in their early twenties or late teens (I'm not totally sure).
Her loss is deeply felt here in Iloilo, but we know she made her peace with God and we will see her in the resurrection! Praise God for the hope we have of Jesus' soon return, when we will meet our deceased loved ones and friends again!
"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." Psalms 116:15.
