I decided to create this page when I was browsing through the net and found a web link exchange for cancer patients and families, and I realized that I wanted the beautiful Web Page that I created in memory of my Beloved father to belong to this link exchange.
My wonderful father is missed everyday by his family. Even though it has been over 12 years I often wish he was here for his grandchildren to share love with. He had the most wonderful love to give. He was the greatest, and I wish every daughter could enjoy having a father like I had. There is a void in my heart since cancer took him away. But I know that someday soon we will see him in that wonderful place God has prepared for us, and my Dad is now.
The terrible pain and slow death that cancer gave my father was one of the many unjust penalties that my Dad had called on his life. He worked as a Pressman at a Newspaper Company. His job caused him to work in an environment of ink and fumes. There was so much ink around him that he would come home full of it in his mouth and lungs. He started there after WWII and stayed until he retired. The ink was more harmful to him than the cirgarettes he smoked off and on. But the combination ate away his esphagus.
One day he was backing up his boat into his lakehouse garage and his right side became paralyzed. My mother took him to the hospital, and they realized that he had a piece of cancer caught in the brain. So brain surgery was performed. This cancer was secondary. Later after he was healing from the surgery they did numerous tests and found the primary cancer in the esophagus. The cancer was too far along for any surgery. So we watched him slowly get weaker and weaker. There were many times that the pain was too much for him to bear. And taking the numerous medications and pills became harder and harder to swallow. My Dad was so loving and patient and close to God during this whole illness.
Where did his peace come from? God is the answer. I want to share with you the writing my Dad left behind. It was his experience and conversation with God after his brain surgery. I hope it will help you in coping with this disease, whether you are a victim of cancer or a family member or friend of someone who has cancer.
A Strange Encounter With God
By Lewis Byron Davenport
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