Dear Carlin and Marcia

Good morning or evening, as it may be there.

I should have composed this sooner.

We just want to thank you Papa Carlin, for being the man of God you have been to us and to many others.

We thank you for your faithfulness to the Lord and for allowing our Lord to use you all your days here.

For your challenges and encouragement to serve God fervently, something you  exampled well.

Psalm 145 says: ..."all Your works shall praise You , O Lord, and Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom."

I feel this verse describes much of what we saw in you. Thank you for your love, and your love to our heavenly Father and to the saints.

May you enter His gates with continued thanksgiving and joy in your heart as you kneel before His glorious presence.

Know that we will continue to love and cherish Marcia and pray that she will never be too far from us.

Blessings and peace dear loved ones.

Love Chris and Bob

Shalom!

Bob and Chris Davis
Chiang Khong, Thailand
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From Carlin

Hi Ray,

I seem to be fading fast, weight loss, muscle strength diminishing, not very stable on my feet now. 
Marcia just sent you an update regarding my leaving Chemo for 24/7 hospice care in our home. 
The cancer is so aggressive the Chemo in one sense is far behind and just adds various additional discomforts.  Home hospice is a one call for looking after all medications, intervenes injections, pain relieve etc. for the remainder of the journey. They have a large hospice crew in our area so they will come anytime day or night PTL

Love ya,
Carlin

Here is the latest news

As of today we have decided to be off chemo and have signed up for home hospice care. 

We are continuing to trust God for His intervention.   We know we are in His hands, and to know we have 24 hour home care available to us is a major relief. 

No more running in to Bellingham for different medical procedures. 

We love all of you and are most grateful for the great host of prayer warriors standing with us, holding us up before the throne of Grace!

Blessings on you all.  Love, Carlin and Marcia

Sunday

Marcia:

We'll go to the doctor again tomorrow and hopefully the doctor will be able to help Carlin eat more. Perhaps put him on an I.V. for fluids.

The last kids left at 5 pm today. After lunch yesterday the 9 grandkids (age 21 - 12) read their favorite verses and asked grandpa some questions.  Carlin shared that he had always wanted to have a favorite Scripture and Colossians 3 had become his life chapter.  He shared his legacy with the grand children.  It was a precious time.

Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. ³ For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is your^[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

⁵ Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.^[b] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. ⁸ But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. ⁹ Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices ¹⁰ and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. ¹¹ Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and

patience. ¹³ Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. ¹⁴ And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." more....

Saturday

From Marcia:

Carlin is fading fast.  He is not able to eat foods, and only sips on liquids, some of which he can no longer tolerate.  It is so very sad for us as his family to be so very helpless and to watch how he is suffering such a horrendous illness.

I praise the Lord that he is suffering little physical pain, and I attribute that to the prayers of all the precious friends who are praying all across the country—and in other countries.  And we ask for prayers for gracious care for Carlin today.

Our Becky, who is a nurse, has been with us for almost two weeks now, at a time when we so needed someone to help us walk through all the doctor’s appointment, the chemo experience, the medications.  The rest of our family is gathering here with us today and overnight and part of tomorrow to have some time with Grandpa/Dad.  It is so good to be together.

While here, the grandsons and sons in law are going to do some yard projects for us.  Precious time, and I am so grateful.

Love you,

Marcia, for all the family

Last Hugs with Dad

Cheri, Lynda, Becky

First Treatment

April 1, 2014

Dear praying family and friends,

On March 30^th the day before I went in for my first infusion, I read Psalm 71 in my Daily Reading Bible. Practically every verse of the 24 verses had practical and in places specific counsel for me regarding my upcoming Chemo therapy. It was like my loving Heavenly Father was saying, “I have known you from your birth, your childhood and now in your old age and grey hairs,” verse 19. It was so precious, like having my Heavenly Father sitting in a chair next to me. 

I copied it out and had it with me during my infusion yesterday (March 31^st) and underlined the many verses of blessings again as the drip sent the strong chemicals into the port on my chest.

The facilities, doctors, nursing staff and support team at the Cancer Clinic adjacent to Saint Joe’s hospital in Bellingham, WA are an amazing, kind, gentle and very informed group of professionals. I’m told by doctors and oncologists not associated with my Bellingham team that I am receiving the “Gold Standard” in chemo treatment, the same anyone would receive at Mayo or any other large cancer facility in the US.

So man can do some amazing things but you and I know it is the Lord who heals whether by miracle or medicine. We leave all of this in His caring and loving hands.

Being my first treatment of a proposed 6 over 18 weeks (one major infusion every three weeks) I’m not sure what the 3 week cycle will look like regarding how I should be feeling etc. Knowing the cancer now has a fight on its hands with the chemicals I’m receiving encourages me that it is no longer running unabated. I slept well last night after the infusion earlier in the day. Ate my usual breakfast and so far no side effects except some light tingling in my hands which is a well documented side effect related to one of the drugs. I have lost weight because of restricted appetite which may stabilize some now. I’m experiencing no pain to date but operate at a much lower energy level then I am used to. So we are looking to what the Lord has for us in all of this.

Our three daughters and their families will be joining us this weekend. Our oldest daughter, Cheri, lives in Abbotsford, BC, Lynda, our middle daughter, is in Duncan on Vancouver Island and Beck, our youngest, lives in Fresno, California. We are looking forward to all of us being together for a few days.

We are not sure how often we will send an update to our blog but feel free to tell others of the blogspot (www.carlinsjourney.blogspot.com) where we do hope to keep in touch with you. Thank you, thank you again for your love, prayer, and cards. Our home is in a small village by the ocean in a place known locally as Birch Bay, Washington.

Our USA mailing address is:
8324 Fawn Crescent

Blaine, WA 98230

Carlin and Marcia

Romans 15:13