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[__ Prayer __] Except for the dying part, it's been good.

handy

handy

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My father has agressive and inoperable cancer in the stomach and esophogus and is not expected to live much longer. God is blessing our family greatly during this time. Dad is a Christian and so are the rest of the family and we've had a really good time to be with Dad this Father's Day, be blessed and encouraged by his faith and trust in God. Dad is in good spirits and did tell the hospice nurse, "Except for the dying part, it's been good."
Things will get tougher in the next week or so and any prayers offered for dad and the family at this time will be appreciated.
 
I've been in pretty much the exact situation with my grandfather, he lasted past Christmas without any pain before he went home. My dad even had a vision, he saw what appeared to be a long line of people, but he could only see their feet. They were wearing white robes, Then he heard a voice saying "Hurry up tommy take your place" . My friends people don't wait in line forever, handy i think you might be seeing your father real soon, he will be glad to give you a tour of paradise :)

I'll send a prayer your way my friend.
 
Hi Dora- God give strength and comfort during this rough time and may he also comfort your dad and ease his burden. Keeping you & your family in our thoughts & prayers.

Rosalee Decker
This is the Day that the Lord has made; we shall rejoice & be glad in it
 
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. We went through something similar with my mom's mom. God granted her peace in her final days in hospice and they took very good care of her. She slipped away in her sleep and went to be with the Lord the day before her 90th birthday. I am so glad that your father is ready to go and be with our Heavenly Father.

God Bless,
Teh
 
Dora~

My mom went to be with our Lord after three years of strokes. She was only ten years old as a disciple of Christ but such a beautiful witness of His grace during this time.

I am blessed to hear of you Dad's precious witness of the Goodness of God, What a wonder the way our Jesus can minister so completely to a person even in "the dying".

I pray for his continued strengthening in his innermost person by the power of our Saviour's love and mercy. May a pure effective witness of the life of Christ be realized by all who watch his last moments upon this earth. May the gospel be shared earnestly, and hearts be rendered to turn to Jesus for salvation. I ask our Father to give him the grace needed for every purpose he would lastly fulfill in His son's life.

I pray for you Dora, and your family to know the Comfort of the Holy Spirit abundantly now, for the Lord to protect each of you through your grief, and to make His glory shine out of your hearts and lives as you remain behind. I ask the Lord to encourage you with assurances that this is only a temporary goodbye.

In the name of Jesus, bonnie.
 
Dora my heart goes out to you and your family. Been in simular situations and all I can say is keep your spiritual eyes and ears open. Cause this is when our Lord speaks abundantly to us in our time of needs. It's such a blessing to see HIM in actions in times like these.....HIS strength is abundant and HIS love so comforting. Praise God your father is surrounded by brethren/family. Help your father keep his focus to the end on Jesus. Keep it joyful around him, even when it gets hard, love/joy/songs of praise can conquer all fear. You're in my prayers, and I will pass your prayer request to my best friend Gail with Cambridge Dove Ministries, we have 65 thousands prayer warriors around the world. You'll be cover for a solid week 24/7 by these mighty prayer warriors.
Honey don't glorify the enemy with tears, rejoice that you know, that you know your father with be welcomed into the arms of Christ.....gets his palm leaf ready to rejoice at the Throne of
God in the Mighty Kingdom of Heaven.

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm_91
 
Dad actually made it to church again yesterday. It did take a lot out of him. He did consent to be brought in the wheel-chair and was too weak to hold his Bible or hymnbook. But, although he needed some morphine before the service was over, he was totally alert throughout the service and was on-fire about the message for the whole of the day, yesterday.

However, he is getting quite weak and I really don't expect him to remain much longer, perhaps a few of weeks at most. A lot of family and friends have been dropping by, but we are needing to limit how many come about now. He likes the visitors, but too many is too many. I'm going to try to get my kids down at least once more, but that will probably have to be it. The morphine is necessary, but he is take enough now that it is interfering with other body functions as well as affecting his mind just a bit. Nothing too bad, but probably not anything the kids need to be exposed too.

I will say this for anyone who has ever thought about visiting someone in their final illness and whether or not it would be 'intruding' on the family, go. Dad has been so blessed by all those who have visited and by the letters and cards he has recieved. I had always felt a bit awkward whenever I've gone to visit someone dying, but now that I'm on the 'family' side of the issue, I see how wonderfully uplifting it truly is.

Dad had told us that it didn't matter to him what we buried him in, that we could just "plant" his remains in a cardboard box. He said to paint it blue and put "Anchors Away" on it. (Dad's an old navy seaman.) Well, when my mom and sisters went to the funeral home to pick out the casket, my sister committed the ultimate faux pas of laughing out loud when the first 'casket' shown was actually made out of none other than cardboard. No we are NOT going to 'plant' him in the cardboard box, but he almost went a lot sooner than necessary because of laughing so hard when he found out there really were caskets made of cardboard and that the one shown to my mom and sisters was in fact blue.

Each day is a true gift from God and he's enjoying a cigar everyday, drinking some pop and eating things like chocolate cake and ice cream, and why not. But, the biggest blessing has come from the fact that his heart and mind is still set upon the Lord and his testimony has remained strong.
 
That's wonderful to hear Dora, God Bless you & your family . Very uplifting!!

Rosalee Decker
This is the Day that the Lord has made; we shall rejoice & be glad in it
 
Dear Dora, I'm sitting here weeping after reading your post, and shared it with my friend Gail. We're so blest by your testimony. Praise God for such wonderful beautiful grace HE has bestowed upon your father and family. Laughter is the best medicine in such times. It's so beautiful.......thank you Dora, I can't say how much you have just spiritually bless me and my friend Gail just now. Gail said she's going to look for a blue cardboard box for herself, she loved the humor in it. She has 2 terminal illnesses herself, she's been healed of about 3 stage 4 illnesses by the grace of God so far, and she's seeking healing from the two that remain. Gail said don't loose hope. She was given 3-6 months to live, almost three years ago. Four of her doctors told her not to bother there was nothing else they could do for her, and she would just be wasting their time. Told her to go home and get her affairs in order. One was her heart doctor, but GOD completely healed her heart, she has the heart of a 16 year old now. Praise God that HE didn't give her that advice. She said that your testimony blest her and to tell you don't loose hope cause God can change it in a minute. She said hang on tight to Jesus! She said your prayer request has been sent in to the 65,000 prayer warriors around the world, and they have pass it on to their prayer warriors.....so your Dad is covered in these times....Amen

Thank you Dora, you've spiritually made my day in the Lord. Alot of tears, but truly they're tears of joy.

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91 and Gail of Cambridge Dove Ministries
 
I am praying that God comfort your family when your dad goes home. He won't need any at that point, but you will need as much as you can get...and then only the Heavenly Father's comfort will touch that place of sorrow that no human person can touch. I am rejoicing with your dad, who seems quite ready to go to God, to finally reach home after his long voyage in this strange land. It's not death, it's just a crossing into the promised land. I imagine he knows that you all will reunite in just little while, what a blessing it must be to him and to you. I thank God you had this past Father's Day together, and that you will be able to treasure your dad's humor, and testimony, even at his hour of death. I know that his humor, and yours, will continue to serve as a relief from grief in these days, and those to come. I know that his testimony will serve as comfort, and give you a spiritual poise when the grief storm hits in full force, that will keep you grounded on the Rock, Christ our Lord. The Lord bless you, Dora...keep us updated.
 
Just want to praise God for yet another Sunday that Dad could go to church. He's on more pain medication now, there is less time between doses, and is weaker yet. But still, Dad manage to not only make it to the morning worship service, he also made it to a special evening worship service as well. I also praise God for the way this has brought our whole family together. My sisters' kids are all grown now with families and kids of their own, and it had been a while since the whole gang made time to get together. Each weekend has been a blessing by being able to get together with each other.

While I'm praising God, I also want to praise Him for the special blessing of being able to take a couple of hours this weekend and spend time with our very own StoveBolts who was driving through Idaho on his way to visit Washington. It was nice to fellowship with him over some coffee. I pray that the rest of Jeff's vacation goes well and he is covered by God's mercies as he travels.

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You and your family continue to be in my prayers... I am so glad to hear that you are getting to enjoy Sunday services with your dad...

God bless you,
Teh
 
Still praising HIM, still praying, still giving HIM thanks for all the many blessings, cause when they're small they're still great in HIM. I'm so bless he made it to church where his heart is in Jesus first in giving HIM thanks, praise, worship, communion in Christ.

Will I ever stop being a weeping christian?......hope not, not with testimonies like these. I am truly bless.

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91<><
 
Today is Mom and Dad's anniversary.

Dad served in the Korea War on the USS Eversole. One Wednesday afternoon, out of the blue, he called my mom and said, "Georgie, I can be stateside on Saturday. Want to get married?" So, Mom had three days to plan her wedding. The wedding took place in their pastor's living room. My mom was so tiny (4'8" and 92 lbs) she couldn't find any wedding dress that would fit her without alterations. Her wedding dress was actually a First Communion dress, but she found a hat with a veil to match it and it is quite beautiful. Instead of a bouquet, she carried a white Bible and a rose cut from the garden. That was 55 years ago today.

When Dad returned to the ship on Sunday at noon, he found out that there had been some kind of mix-up and that he didn't have leave. He was AWOL during a time of war, not a good situation. However, his commanding officer worked things out so he didn't have to spend any time in the brig.

Since the wedding was planned so quickly, nobody remember to bring a camera, so we don't have any pictures of their wedding day. But, these pictures were taken of them during the same year they got married:

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Please pray for a special blessing for the family as we gather later today to spend their anniversary with them.
 
How wonderful- celebrating another anniversary together!! Praise God for that!! How many years have they been married? Beautiful pictures of them both by the way!! Congradulations to them both!! Sending hugs and keeping all of you in myn thoughts & prayers. :-D

Rosalee Decker
This is the Day that the Lord has made; we shall rejoice & be glad in it
 
It's been a while since I've updated this prayer request. There really isn't any change to the basic prayer request. Dad has steadily gone down, however he has made all the 'milestones' of the summer, the anniversary, the birth of a new great-granddaughter and the wedding of a grandson. He still walks, although he must reach out to walls and furniture to steady himself now. His throat closes quite often now, but medication still seems to open it back up. However, the medication also makes him very sick to his stomach. He eats very little. One area that could be prayed for is that he won't have hallucinations. These morphine induced hallucinations can be very unsettling for him and he can become very agitated over them. They do seem very real when he is having them, and sometimes it's hard to convince him that they weren't. This can be more than a little stressful for mom, espcially when dad gets really angry with her for having a party at 3:00 am.

I've had to pull back on spending the weekends down there. It was just causing too much stress and strain on the kids and Steve. I do visit often and call every day. He sleeps most of the time now, and my two sisters are also there to help out. Mom and Dad understand that especially since my kids are younger, that I cannot spend as much time there as I would like.

As always thanks for the prayers. All-in-all, Dad's spirits have remained good, although sometimes he can be pretty crabby at times, which is hard on Mom. Understandable, but hard.
 
Thank you Dora for the up date on your Dad. Ge's doing as well as can be expected. I will keep him in my prayers and pray that the Hallucinations lessen. I would talk to the DR's about changing meds- that won't effect him in the way that this med does.Hugs to you & your family. God Bless.

Rosalee Decker
This is the day that the Lord has made; we shall rejoice & be glad in it
 
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