It was just after 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2007 when Darryl Perry died.
The former University of Florida fullback-turned-financial adviser and his wife, Nicky, had settled down to sleep around midnight after an otherwise normal day. Perry usually worked 16-hour days, Monday through Saturday. The father of three also coached his then-8-year-old son's baseball team. A deeply spiritual man, Perry usually awoke
around 4 a.m. to read the Bible and pray for his wife and children before starting his day. Though the forty-year-old's sudden cardiac death was a shock to his wife, family and friends, Perry knew it was coming.
Six months before, during his morning prayer time, he says God gave him a message. Alone in his room, Perry felt a hand touch his shoulder and a voice say, Son, you're going to have to die on my behalf.
Shaken, Perry asked, "Who's there? Is somebody in here?" He felt a
calming presence and believed it was God. Unready to face the fate of death, he pushed the moment out of his mind and carried on with his day...
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