Sunday, I received a call from Lise' that her husband and my friend Donald McCallum had left this life to be in the presence of Jesus. For a year Donald had battled lung cancer.
Donald had place an article in the Malcolm/McCallum Clan Society newsletter, The Argent Castle in the winter of 2002, inviting men of the clan to join him in reenacting St. Columba's Voyage from Ireland to Scotland. As St. Patrick before him, Columba would be a catalyst in bringing Christianity to a pagan land, Scotland. We would row a 6th century replica of an Irish curragh across some of the world's dangerous waters. In our case the cow hides would be canvas for the hull. Donald was searching for 12 others to join him.
When I finished the article, I called to my wife, Sharon who was in the kitchen that I believed God had placed me in front of an open door. She replied then I must go through it. I called Donald immediately and signed up! Later my wife asked about the door God had placed in front of me. After I told her she asked are you sure it's from God! Yes, I was.
That encounter would be the beginning of a close friendship. The next year Donald organized another evangelistic trip, this one reenacted Columba's journery from Iona to Inverness through the Great Glen Way to King Brude's fort.
Donald was a visionary who prophetically saw a revival coming to his home country of Scotland. Donald will see it from the throne of God. There has been no other person whom I've encountered that reflects the image of Jesus more than Donald. A strong man, yet tender to all those he encountered. A humble man who sought what was best for others and not for himself. A man who loved life to the fullest. A man who loved his God with all his heart, mind and strength.
Thank you, Donald for being my friend.
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