14/12/2025
My heroic father, Peter Dickins, has finally succumbed to eternal rest following a fairly lengthy spell of health challenges. What strength and resolution he has shown in the past couple of years — a steely determination that, in the face of all adversity shouts “do not give up!!” How empowering to know that in this blood there exists such all enduring strength, what a gift to honour, to keep in your heart and to remind the boys when you are 2-0 down, you do not under any circumstances give up. How I will honour this strength until my dying day.
I was also very grateful, whilst visiting my Dad on the stroke ward, to sit and experience such a deep sense of peace with him. To have held hands, and a steady, non-searching gaze, and to have sat in such deep peace. Like the blanket of peace that covers the earth on a still winter’s morning. The peace that runs through a river, the peace that fills an empty church, the peace that rolls through the hills, the peace that fills a deep, eternal night sky, I am so touched to have felt this peace with him and to know that he is resting in this deep peace now.
Thank you for these gifts Dad, on England’s pleasant pastures they were seen.
Safe travels. Godspeed.
Peter Vernon Dickins 29.7.39 - 12.12.25
