WILL I SEE MY DAD AGAIN?

It was a bright day when I looked over the roof of my house and watched as it glittered under the sun. It was a hot morning and the feeling that 'yes it is going to be a normal busy day today' overwhelmed me. And I started thinking of the first thing I would be doing on that sunny Saturday morning. The first thing I thought of was to fill the empty cans with water and do a little cleaning around the house. I took the cans out to fill them up when I saw my
brother running down and panting seriously as though he had been chased by a lion. I asked him why he was so erratic, and he said the doctors told him to go home and get some money to settle the bills our father who was critically ill in the hospital.
We had rushed him to the hospital the previous day because his health condition was deteriorating due to the prolonged diabetes that led to other complications. I was so confused and tensed; I did not know what to do. I lost all forms of positive thinking and praying was not something I considered at that point. I went to my father's friends and told them to pray for me. It was like the words were scarce; there was pandemonium everywhere. But they managed to say a little prayer in the midst of anxiety.

 I guess that could not prevent the inevitable from happening. "Maybe a little more fervent prayers, speaking in tongues and some laying of hands would suffice"; I thought. I never realized the effects of losing a figurehead as I was much younger; he was quite a strict man that always believed in discipline, but as time passed by, I realized that there has been a big vacuole left in my life and my family. There have been hard times since then, times when I thought that the presence of my Dad would sort out so many difficulties. I knew that he will never come back but sometimes I have this level of uncertainty that it may not be true.
I have always heard of the saying "till we meet again" and whenever I read or hear that, it sends chills down my spine and I always wonder what that means and how it will happen. But then it gives me some sense of hope that I will see my Dad again someday.