Never give up hope.

Recently someone in another state was telling me about his wife’s father. He explained how 'they' had sent him home with inoperable cancer. My friend’s wife decided that she wasn’t just going to wait for her dad to die. She took an interest in him and his diet. She researched alternate means of fighting cancer.  They’d never been emotionally close but as they spent time together she felt like she was developing a different kind of relationship with the father she'd never known. 

Most of his life he’d spent kind of estranged from God and experiences in the church had left him critical.  She said to him one day, ‘Dad, when you face Jesus he isn’t going to ask you about all those other guys, He’s going to ask you about you.  Are you ready to face Him?’  He responded, ‘I tried accepting Christ a long time ago and it didn’t work for me.’  She asked, ‘Would you like to try again?’ and He did.  After that he softened.  He would ask her how she was, about her life. One day he stopped her as she was leaving and told her that he loved her. God was at work in his life. It seemed as though she had her father back!  Sunday morning he went to be with the Lord he’d so recently become reacquainted with. God is good. Be patient. Never give up hope!