that January 26th day....

My Daddy

was

diagnosed with

PROSTATE CANCER....

that word again

CANCER

You can look at him

and never SEE

that he could be

SICK

BUT

that is what it does...

It's the silent

ONE.

IT comes and

robs you of your JOY.

My DADDY

loves to have all his family

around him

ALWAYS HAS....

On March 5, 2012

Dr. Vipul Patel

and his amazing team

went after DAD's cancer

TODAY, as we understand it

he is CANCER-FREE

HE is healing

RECOVERING

WE ALL want to continue

in our place with him...

TO HELP HIM

through

the next day,

or WEEKS,

MONTHS,

or YEARS

To ENCOURAGE

our DADDY

by the LOVE

that is

HIS FAMILY

HIS WIFE of 52 years,

HIS DAUGHTER of 49 1/2 years,

HIS SON of 48 years,

and the many grandchildren who love

their grandparents...

 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.