American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina has described the stunning moment she believes her stepfather entered into the presence of Jesus. Alaina, who came second in the tenth season of the popular talent show, took to Instagram to describe the moment her stepdad passed from this life to the next.
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“My stepdad, Sam, went to heaven at one o’clock this morning,” Alaina wrote Oct. 21. “He was the purest example of how to love and live life fully.”
The singer, who released her second album “Road Less Traveled” last year, described in detail Sam’s heartbreaking, yet hopeful, final moments.
“His last few hours were some of the most amazing moments I know I will ever have the privilege of witnessing,” she wrote. “He opened his eyes last night. They shined the brightest I’ve ever seen anyone’s eyes shine, and he said, ‘Jesus.’ We said, ‘What do you see Sam?’ He said, ‘It’s so beautiful.'”
She continued: “Mom asked him who he saw and he told her a bunch of people, including his mama. He later said, ‘I love you all. I found it.’ My mom asked him what he found and he said, ‘Heaven. I’ve got to go.’ An hour later he went to be with the Lord.”
Alaina, who became engaged to her long-term boyfriend in July of this year, said she was desperate for her step-father’s experience to “be an example of how real God is.”
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“We are only here for a short amount of time,” she added. “And we have to live like there is no tomorrow.”
“I want us to all be a little more like Sam,” the singer wrote. “He was strong. He was the most compassionate person in the world. He would go without to help a stranger. He was a great dad. Now he is with the best Father in the universe. Thank you to everyone who has supported our family in this time. We appreciate the love, donations, and prayers that we have received.”
Others took to social media to share their stories of loved ones experiencing a divine presence shortly before they passed from this life.
“My husband was laying in a hospital bed in our home. He was on morphine and hadn’t been responding to us. I heard voices. I went into his room where he lay and he was looking straight up and had both hands raised up high and I know he was talking to Jesus,” one user commented. “The next day he went to meet Him. That was my final assurance on his love for God. I think God came to him that night. It’s been almost 3 yrs now and I cry everyday for him but I have no doubt that when the Lord comes back my precious husband will meet Him in the air.”
“I want to share my Dads experience as well,” another person wrote. “He left this world Feb 9, 2018. He was diagnosed Sept 2017 with GBM4. When the initial tumor was removed he said during the surgery God took him to where there were many mansions. He asked the Lord was He taking him home? The Lord answered ‘Not yet. You still have work to do’. So my Dad came out of a major brain surgery where the tumor was the size of a mans hand.”
“Telling his story,” that person continued, “he had a sermon to preach to all of us. See, he was our churches Pastor as well. Even though the doctors gave him 3-6 months to live, he knew that only God knew when He would be back for him. He left us peacefully and content in knowing he did His work. Bless you and your family during this sad but celebratory time.”