Haitian mud cookies snopes1/19/2023 ![]() I quickly googled it… CANCER was the first word I saw. I paused for a second as I tried to remember what Melanoma was. I had some thoughts of my own, so I’ll put his words in italics and my thoughts in normal type. He had plenty to say, including some suggestions for churches helping others in his situation. A couple weeks into her diagnosis I realized that while we had been talking to our daughter Amanda, we had not talked with her husband, Jake. Our daughter and family live about 12 hours away, outside of Austin. But I think I’ve still missed much of what folks are going through. Now I’ve been with families through more hard times, healings and deaths than I can count. It wasn’t until years into this job that I realized what a privilege it is to be with families in hurting times. I fainted at the birth of our first child. I’m a strong believer that God made skin to keep stuff in, and I’d just as soon keep it that way. Hospital visits have never been my forte. ![]() I didn’t plan on being a pastor, and parts of it still terrify me. If you have improvements, please send them my way. ![]() I wrote it hoping the journal ChristianityToday/Pastors will print it for Jake, so I wrote it with that in mind. ![]() It’s about Amanda’s cancer, and a call I made to her husband Jake. The above picture and caption/title were recently posted by our daughter Amanda on Facebook. ![]()
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