Friday, January 2, 2009

From My "Has Known Him the Longest" Sister, Denise Lenderink VanderWal


Sara, your poem is beautiful.
We all have experienced and continue to experience that wonderful unconditional love. What an earthly example of Christ dad is and has been. Even through all the difficult times in his life dad has always been faithful. I can't even imagine life without him as I know you can't either.
I too am praying for a miracle, a total cure. Not from medicine, not from doctors, not from chemo but by a totally unexplainable source...no explanation...only a miracle, only God, who will be given ALL the glory and ALL the honor and ALL the praise.
At the same time we need to cherish every moment we have together with our truly remarkable dad and thank God for every single moment we have already had. I feel so honored to be picked by God to be his daughter, me biologically and you through another miracle. Isn't God amazing and good?
He took something you hated and turned it into something so beautiful. He made us a family. Two totally different families in two entirely different states, clear across the country from each other and wove us together to be a new family.
If dad had not married your mom your children would have never had a grandpa. It just amazes me how God worked that all out. It is wonderful to have each other through this very difficult time and even though we aren't living close to each other we all have one common prayer....please heal our dad and grandpa. We all love him so much!
When your mom had cancer I remember thinking how cruel that dad found such a wonderful woman and they love each other so much and he is so happy and now what if God takes her!
It is so wonderful that they got through that and now I can only pray that they will again get through with another miracle.
What ever happens, how ever God chooses to answer our prayers, the biggest thing we need to do is TRUST! We serve a good and loving God and He only wants the BEST for us. We need to trust and believe that because that is how dad has lived his life. We need to follow that example.
Never give up, never stop trusting and always continue to believe GOD IS IN CONTROL!
I love you Sara, love Denise

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