Thanks for the kind words Ernie. I shared our exchanges with my Pastor today. He preached a message last Sunday on the subject of Suffering and It was a great message that I think you may find interesting. You can find it here http://www.communitybaptist.to/media.htm and then click on "Happiness Happens". Later in the day my Pastor asked me to share a short testimony to the church about Patrick and your contacting me these many years later. Of course I told him I would. I do not know exactly what I will say yet but I trust the Lord will give me the wisdom to say what needs to be said and that it will be an encouragement to the members of our church.
Also I want to know if you would mind me posting your last email on my blog? I would post it just as you wrote it. I believe it would be a blessing to some others to read it. Let me know your answer. If you don't want others to read it I will respect your privacy. Lord Bless Mike
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Mike, I am the one who should thanking you because your kindness, love and interest in Pat and our family is more real now than it was 25 years ago simply because I didn’t have an understanding of what or how you related personally with Pat at that particular time in your life. Of course I knew that you were being treated but –
I wish I could be there when you speak at your church service it would definitely be good for me as well to share in it. You can share any and /or all of my e mails as you see fit. Sometime when you have a minute please fill me in about how you got to go to Calgary and when you went back. Along with what you do as a boiler maker as I don’t really have a clue. How active are you as a Minister in your church?
When will you be sharing with the members of your church? Let me know please.
I have shared your blog/e mail with many people on my mail list and look forward to sharing it with more in the next few days.
Please say Hi to Benita from us and I think Shirley will be sending you an email shortly.
Kindest regards,
Ernie
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Mike,
My Dad has encouraged me to write something to you and I was not a 100% sure what I would say for something that happened over 20 years ago... As I write this I am still not 100% sure what to say, so for now I need to thank you for what you did for my older brother when he was struggling through the biggest thing that happened in his life.
As it turned out I would struggle with that same thing not quite 20 years later, I had a really hard time dealing with what had happened to me, and I asked the same questions that everyone asks. The major question you ask is "why me?", and I remembered that it happened to a very young person in my life and that person was my brother. I asked for help and the answer that came to me was God works in mysterious ways, and you are preventing a child from having to struggle through this. As it turned out I was lucky and didn't have to deal with all the trouble that comes with being treated for cancer. I still know that because I was diagnosed I saved a young set of parents (Like my wife and I) from having to see there own child go through the same things my parents had to deal with at such a young age.
As a Parent now I am not sure how I would deal with seeing my own child have to deal with what Pat had to go through. In some of the reading I have done lately is that our children pick us, they pick there path, and that they also choose if they are going to be sick. The purpose of this is to teach us something, to advance our spirit on the great journey of our spirits travel. Now that I know this I know my daughter has met her Uncle Pat, Her Grandpa, and her many other people that would care about her.
Anyways I don't remember a lot about the journey that Pat took. I will never forget and will always try to learn something from it and anything else that happens in my life.
God Bless
Chris Callow
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