Although Dutch Reagan, because of the Alzheimer's, hadn't been able to return his wife's affection like he used to, somehow, someway, he managed to do it one last time just before he passed away...
"And as Nancy Reagan publicly showed her heartbreak, details of her final private moment with the love of her life were revealed last night as one of deep sorrow and miraculous surprise.
The former First Lady believes her long-suffering husband recognized her when he stared into her eyes for an instant before taking his last breath, his daughter Patti Davis writes.
"It was the greatest gift he could have given me," the former First Lady told her family.
Sobbing, shaking and knowing death was imminent, she held her husband's hand about 1 p.m. Saturday as he inhaled deeply and opened his eyes for the first time in five days.
While most thought Alzheimer's disease had robbed former President Reagan of all his memory, the last look he gave his wife was one of deep acknowledgment, Davis writes for People magazine in its upcoming edition.
"At the last moment when his breathing told us this was it, he opened his eyes and looked straight at my mother. Eyes that had not opened for days did, and they weren't chalky or vague," Davis recalls. "They were clear and blue and full of life. If a death can be lovely, his was."
Davis and her brother Ron were standing next to their father's bed when the astonishing interchange between their parents took place.
"In his last moment he taught me that there is nothing stronger than love between two people, two souls," Davis writes. "It was the last thing he could do to show my mother how entwined their souls are and it was everything."
The former President died just before Michael Reagan entered his father's room, but he said the look on Nancy Reagan's face revealed she had been given a gift even as she began to mourn her loss.
"His last earthy look was at his wife, his next look was at the face of God," Michael Reagan told People."
Although Dutch Reagan, because of the Alzheimer's, hadn't been able to return his wife's affection like he used to, somehow, someway, he managed to do it one last time just before he passed away...
"And as Nancy Reagan publicly showed her heartbreak, details of her final private moment with the love of her life were revealed last night as one of deep sorrow and miraculous surprise.
The former First Lady believes her long-suffering husband recognized her when he stared into her eyes for an instant before taking his last breath, his daughter Patti Davis writes.
"It was the greatest gift he could have given me," the former First Lady told her family.
Sobbing, shaking and knowing death was imminent, she held her husband's hand about 1 p.m. Saturday as he inhaled deeply and opened his eyes for the first time in five days.
While most thought Alzheimer's disease had robbed former President Reagan of all his memory, the last look he gave his wife was one of deep acknowledgment, Davis writes for People magazine in its upcoming edition.
"At the last moment when his breathing told us this was it, he opened his eyes and looked straight at my mother. Eyes that had not opened for days did, and they weren't chalky or vague," Davis recalls. "They were clear and blue and full of life. If a death can be lovely, his was."
Davis and her brother Ron were standing next to their father's bed when the astonishing interchange between their parents took place.
"In his last moment he taught me that there is nothing stronger than love between two people, two souls," Davis writes. "It was the last thing he could do to show my mother how entwined their souls are and it was everything."
The former President died just before Michael Reagan entered his father's room, but he said the look on Nancy Reagan's face revealed she had been given a gift even as she began to mourn her loss.
"His last earthy look was at his wife, his next look was at the face of God," Michael Reagan told People."
That's beautiful. Thanks for posting it.
Reagan was god's gift to america, he came from god, he returned to god. A tree is known by its fruit and he certainly grew good fruit. As Ghandi oberved : murderers and thieves come and go, but the truth and love live forever. Whence cometh hate and love? QM/atomic physics : Pauli Exclusion principle for fermions(electrons, protons, neutrons, etc) : no 2 electrons in a given atom can have the same n, l, m or s number. Thus the stacking principle of chemistry, unique names, pecking order, "turf", repulsion; HATE. The Bose Inclusion Principle : with n number of bosons in a given state there is a n+1 enhancement factor for the next boson to join that state. Thus the lasar, gravity, attraction; LOVE. Fermions are spin 1/2, bosons spin 1; thus 1/2+1/2=1. Or, when you "pair up" as nancy and ron did you join the ever growing bose-love state shared by many, many others in a growing stream of joyous love....See, science isn't all that cold and indifferent after all, we EXPLAIN things that to religion are mysteries.
I hope with all my heart that that kind, humble, great man had made peace with God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ at some point in his life. He told the audience at a Southern Baptist Convention assembly in Atlanta that he was a born again Christian. I hope that was not political pandering, and I don't believe that he was the kind of man who would be so crassly political-minded that he would do that.
I can't help wondering what RR's wife and children thought or now think about his claimed relationship with God. AFAIK none of them have any regard for Christ or his church. Again, I have a hope for him, that hope being that he will have the company of the people he loved most in his earthly life in his eternal life as well.
If anyone gets the impression that I loved and admired RR your impression is quite correct.