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    Hope Through Dark Valleys: God's Intimate Support for Carers of Loved Ones with Life-threatening Illness
    Hope Through Dark Valleys: God's Intimate Support for Carers of Loved Ones with Life-threatening Illness
    Hope Through Dark Valleys: God's Intimate Support for Carers of Loved Ones with Life-threatening Illness
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    Hope Through Dark Valleys: God's Intimate Support for Carers of Loved Ones with Life-threatening Illness

    By Mandy Hackland

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    This book will not give you all the answers when you find yourself in the challenging position of having to care for a member of your family with a serious, potentially life-threatening illness. Every person's story is different, and everyone deals with such situations in their own way. Hope through Dark Valleys has been written with the prayer that it will encourage you, the Carer, and help you connect with God as you face the challenges every day presents. May it help you to discover God's presence for yourself and your loved ones in the days ahead. God is faithful, and no matter what your future holds He will be there for you ... always.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMandy Hackland
    Release dateMar 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370248797
    Hope Through Dark Valleys: God's Intimate Support for Carers of Loved Ones with Life-threatening Illness
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    Mandy Hackland

    Mandy Hackland is a Christ follower who lives in South Africa on the Cape coast. She is passionate about encouraging others to grow a deeper relationship with Jesus. She communicates this as she paints creation and God's love for His people through word-pictures in her novels, and as she challenges others to explore their faith in her books of devotions and non-fiction.

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      Book preview

      Hope Through Dark Valleys - Mandy Hackland

      Hope Through Dark Valleys

      God’s Intimate Support for Carers

      of Loved Ones with Life-threatening Illness

      By

      Mandy Hackland

      Copyright 2016 Mandy Hackland

      Published by Mandy Hackland at Smashwords

      Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®. Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved.

      NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.®

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      How to use this book

      Who is God to you?

      How can God help?

      The News

      Treatment

      Recovery

      Setbacks

      Your needs as Carer

      Other people

      Barricades

      Hospice

      Practicalities

      Release

      Life after Death

      Memories

      My Final PrayerAcknowledgements

      Acknowledgements

      About Mandy Hackland

      Connect with Mandy Hackland

      Other titles by Mandy Hackland

      Dedication

      For Nigel

      Thank you

      Foreword

      Caregivers are ‘angels in disguise’ as they journey alongside a loved one, a relative or a patient as they struggle with a life-threatening condition.

      Mandy is such a caregiver. She speaks from her own personal experience but also from her solidly grounded belief in the unchanging love of God and in the knowledge of the resilience of the human spirit.

      I was privileged to know Nigel and Mandy for several years.

      Nigel was a quiet, courageous man but initially bewildered by the undiagnosed symptoms and mercurial emotions.

      Together they travelled through the highs and lows of the journey experiencing the roller-coaster of horror, hope, sorrow, weariness, frustration, surrender and, trust. Their love for one another deepened as, with a steadfast courage, they sought the guidance of both God and the medical profession through it all.

      Read this book and draw strength from it, written by one who knows.

      Marge Stathakis

      Introduction

      This book will not give you all the answers when you find yourself in the challenging position of having to care for a member of your family with a serious, potentially life-threatening illness. Every person’s story is different, and everyone deals with such situations in their own way. There are no right ways and no wrong ways. Just different ways.

      But its goal is to encourage you, the Carer, and to help you connect with God as you face the challenges every day presents.

      Who am I to write such a book?

      I have no medical training. I’m just a wife who was plunged into the role of Carer when my husband, Nigel, was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

      Nigel was an energetic man, living a healthy life-style – and yet cancer struck out of the blue. Our feelings swirled around us. One day we were angry, the next day one of us would be in denial whilst the other bargained with God. There was no pattern. It was as if we were living in a kaleidoscope of emotions.

      Both Nigel and I had been Christ-followers for many years. We were active in our church. But suddenly life changed dramatically for us.

      How could God let this happen to us? Where was our miracle? Many questions were never answered, yet through it all God was there. We heard Him speak to us through Scripture, friends and family, and even the radio.

      We prayed for healing yet, day by day, the evidence of our eyes, and the doctor’s reports belied the fact that there would be healing. I heard God’s promises, but I couldn’t see healing happening. Miracles were taking place around us for other people – yet not for us. Life was hard. I watched as Nigel grew increasingly frail.

      Until the end.

      Where was God now? How could He let this happen to me? What would I do, where would I go, how would

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