Please Pray for my Daddy

"Grandpa Glenn" with the kids, Hawaii, April 2008

I received a call in the middle of night from a hospital in Hawaii saying that my Daddy was in the ER. A neighbor had found him wandering around dazed and confused. They ran a CT scan and found lesions on his brain which pointed to cancer.

After studying the test results the oncologist determined that he has advanced lung cancer that has metastasized into his brain. They are saying he has a few months to live. I am heartbroken. I've always known this day would eventually come, but you never feel fully prepared when it does happen.

So this news came as a shock. I had just spoken to him by phone three weeks ago, just shortly after I had heard that legendary guitarist Les Paul had died. He was a huge fan of Les Paul, so I called him to tell him the news. At the time, he was his normal chatty self and totally coherent. Ironically, Les Paul was 93 when he died, the same age as my Daddy.

I had been telling a few close friends recently that God was preparing my heart to focus on finding help for Daddy. While he was healthy at the time, I had said to them, at his age things could change overnight. It feels unreal that what I said just days ago has actually come true.

It is a reminder to me about the brevity of life. We often think we have endless days before us, yet the Bible says that our life is but a vapor that vanishes before we realize. I am to count each day as a precious gift, each beloved person as a blessing to hold near. May I never take my life for granted but pour it out for the glory of God.

Please pray for our family during this time. Pray for God's touch on my Daddy, that his last days on earth would be filled with peace and comfort. I know the task before me to is remind him of his faith in Jesus and to prepare him for his Homegoing. Please pray that the Lord would give us His wisdom and guidance in how we can be a blessing to my Daddy in the days ahead.

Thank you so much!

"For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away." James 4:14