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So, I’ve been fretting about my mother’s battle with pancreatic cancer. In case you have not been keeping up, she’s approaching the one year anniversary of finding out she had it, and when she was first diagnosed, the most generous prognosis the doctors gave us was that she had 6-12 months to live. A few weeks ago they decided that the chemo was no longer doing her any good and took her off of it. She’s gotten worse ever since.

My mom is a Christian and her faith is very simple, very childlike; she doesn’t concern herself with lengthy debates on the Trinity or anything like that. I’ve tried to talk with her about being prepared for the end, but she’s had a hard time discussing it; she would just start to cry and say she does not want to talk about it. I decided to put together this book for her, which you can view even if you don’t have a Facebook account by going here.

It’s a collection of images from nature with messages and Bible verses for my mother about God’s love, prayer, and heaven. The pictures were all taken by my friend Patrick and he was kind enough to let me use them. When I was putting them together, I kept thinking, what if your child was dying? How would you explain to him or her what’s going to happen? This was the best I could come up with. I showed them to my mother and she loved them. Tomorrow I’m going to have them printed off and converted into a small book for her to read whenever she needs encouragement.

Thank you to all of the kind people who offered me suggestions. Please continue to pray for my mother, her name is Karen. I haven’t given up on a miracle yet, I just want her to be ready for whatever may come.