In  Loving  Memory Of

Daniel Michael Bellard

4th March 1938-20th March 2002

 

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I would like to introduce you to a

wonderful person who made a huge impact on my life.

My beloved husband Daniel.

 

I met Daniel at my local church Baptist church in October 1972. I was a bible study leader for new Christians at the time, and Daniel who had come to the Lord a year before was one of my ‘students’. This bible study group met in my home, and after bible study we would have coffee and cake. It was a time to relax and really get to know one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. There was something ‘special’ about Daniel from that very first study that drew me towards him. It was to be several months before I realised that God was drawing us together to share our lives in marriage.

He was a man who was very sensitive to other peoples needs; something inside him seemed to understand just where someone was coming from.

Daniel had the most loving and gentle heart of anyone I have ever met, and the most compassionate. His heart was also the Lords, when he talked about Jesus his whole face lit up, and there was such deep joy and peace in that face.

Daniel was a man with a tremendous sense of humour, and would have you crying with laughter. I often am reminded of one of his jokes or I hear a joke and as I am laughing I can hear him laughing with me.

 

He was a family man, who loved nothing better than to spend time with his children. Daniels great love was the outdoors, and he especially loved fishing. Saturday mornings Jason and Daniel went fishing together, sometimes Helen and I would go along and we would go for a long walk whilst the men fished. Some of my fondest memories are of Daniel sitting by a riverbank rod in hand, patiently waiting for the fish to ‘bite. Other wonderful memories of him are at family gatherings, how he loved for the whole family to be gathered together, and no matter how busy our lives were he always made time for regular family gatherings. Christmas was an especially great family gathering, there would be between 20-30 for Christmas day lunch, and these times meant so much to him.

 

In the last three years of his life as his health seriously declined our grandson was the ‘light of his life’ Joshua and Daniel had a very special bond and Joshua, especially over the last year of his life brought such comfort to him. How he would have loved Thomas who was born in August of this year! He was too ill to understand that Helen was pregnant with the second grandchild he longed for.

 

On March the 20th God graciously took my beloved home. I had always imagined that Daniel and I would grow old together, sitting by the fireside in twilight years in that wonderful companionship that years of loving and growing together brings.

 

In summoning up my beloved and our life together I would just say simply he was a man who knew Gods heart. A man whose greatest delight was to talk about Jesus, to build up the saints, and to share Jesus with those who were lost and hurting.

 

He was my best friend who taught me so much about real love. He was my lover, whose love and patience, and gentleness taught me the sweetness of intimacy. He was soul mate. Jesus took this shattered battered heart and placed it in Daniel loving care and he helped me let go of my past so I could become all that God intended me to be.

 

Husband, lover, friend, father and Grandfather, here was a man of God who taught his family that only in Jesus and with Him as the head could two people find true unity in the way God intended. He passed down to his son and daughter the most wonderful legacy of all that in Christ we are all a new creation, and we build our lives on the sure foundation of Jesus as the centre of our lives. Daniel did not just talk the talk, he walked the walk, and nowhere more profoundly was that true than in our marriage.

 

Thank You Jesus for the gift that you gave me the day you called into marriage with Daniel. Those 29 years were the happiest, years I have ever experienced. Thank you for the blessing of our wonderful children who Daniel nurtured and loved, and taught them your ways and your Word.

 

As I have sat at this keyboard remembering, all I can remember is a life full of love, laughter and prayer. I kept thinking there must have been some down times as well it couldn’t have been this good always. As I thought back over the past twenty nine years I realised that we only ever had one minor ‘tiff’ and that was when I had my hair cut short LOL Yes it was this good, and it just got better!

 

 

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