My loving brother is terminally ill.

[Court Jester]

That really is sad. It's strange how unclear life's reasoning is.  I had an alcoholic grand mother that smoked like a freight train and lived to be 89 and with no relation to the smoking and drinking causing her death. It makes no sense how or why things happen. I guess when it's time; it's just time.
My thoughts are with you though man. They really are. I hope things go as smoothly as they possibly can.

[APP_Racing]

Prayers for you all.  Sorry to hear the bad news.  If you need anything please let us  know

[Noidly1]

Bummer.

Thoughts and prayers to all.

[KBOlsen]

:(

Prayers sent.

[cbr-racer]

Prayers sent .

[boots]

Try to stay strong for your brother. I know it's hard I've lost my mother and grandfather and other fam members to cancer.
Prayer is a strong thing. I will pray for your family that you will have peace and be blessed.

[r1owner]

Man, so sorry to read this Speedie!  :(

Is he sure he want's to do chemo.  That's damn near as bad as the disease itself.

I'll pray for him tonight.

weggie hit it on the head when he said cancer sucks.

[PaulV]

Thoughts and Prayers to you, your brother and niece...

PaulV

[Jason748]

prayers, sent.  I'm truly sorry.

[Chef]

Dear Speedballer347,
      I don't know if we know each other or not.  We may, I didn't see your name in the post.  I understand if you decide not to write back, your post said you wouldn't and that's okay.  I understand also that you're very angry right now, and that's okay too.  
      I lost my brother also when he was too young to go.  It seems incredibly unfair, and very hurtful.  I did not know why it happened, or what the justification for it was.  All I knew was my family was hurting, it seemed unfair, and that I was mad at God.  I claimed then to not be a believer myself as well.  Most people will say that they understand how you feel, and they really, really won't.  But trust me, I have lost a brother, and a father in unnatural and early circumstances, and it hurts like hell.
      Our Lord will sometimes do extraordinarily happy and good things to bring Glory and faith to his name.  Unfortuneately however, because we are in an imperfect world, he will sometimes also let things that are very hurtful, and painful, happen to us in an effort to draw us near.  
    My Dad smacked me in the mouth one time so hard when I was a little kid, for something I said to my Mom.  It hurt so bad, and my feelings were hurt so bad, that I didn't talk to my Dad for about a week.  But you know what?  Today I consider my Dad one of the world's greatest heroes I've ever met.  He's gone now, but the days he and I spent at the track together, or little league baseball, or drinking coffee when Mom wasn't looking are precious to me now.
   I will not say "hang in there he's gonna make it" cause like you said, that hurts if it isn't true in OUR EYES.  But speedballer please, please understand that the Lord has other ways of judging whether or not someone "makes it."  My brother Allen is gone from me, and so is my Dad, but they are in a place that is so peaceful, and so good, that to ask them to come home back to me would be a disservice to them.
    We don't go to heaven based on our good works, or good deeds, or how nice we are.  It says in the book of Ephesians that "Salvation is not of works, lest any man should boast," meaning.......  no human person is righteous enough for heaven, no matter how good we think we've been.  But the ....." Gift of God, is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord" and my favorite is in the book of Romans, which says, "Whosever calls on the name of the Lord, SHALL be saved."  In that context in that scripture the Lord is Jesus Christ, and the term being saved refers to salvation to heaven, not eternal life in our physical body.
      You brother may very well pass, but you stated that his intelligence and goodness will be wasted.  This is only true, if he does not assure his salvation.  But if he assures his salvation before he goes, then the few months he has left on earth can be his greatest testimony and triumph, greater than any book he's ever written so far I promise......  and he'll never be wasted, but glorified when he sits in front of the Father.
    If my religiosity has offended you I understand, I was mad when my brother and my Dad left too.  I lived my whole life chasing things of this earth, according to desires of my own heart just like everyone, thinking that I evolved from a monkey and thinking that when I'm dead, I'm just gone.  But when I was 31, (think of that, 31 years of working, racing, partying....etc etc) the Lord grabbed me by the scruff of the neck, corrected me, and now with his Word, and his Son, and his Spirit, there is nothing on this earth that has not been, "added unto me" as the Bible says.  Every promise that I ever read that God gave us in his word seems IMPOSSIBLE, so I put them to the test.  And you know what??  Every time I tested one of his biblical but impossible tests, he came through, and has never, ever, ever, left me without what is needed.  
     There is an eternity in front of you and your brother.  It's a forever and ever thing man, I promise, and I swear to it on my own soul.  If you and your brother, just become a whosever long enough to, "whosever calls upon the name of the Lord, SHALL be saved," then your brother will still leave you soon, no doubt, but when you leave us here, and you go on before us, then you WILL SEE HIM AGAIN, and there will never again from that point forward, "be a parting" as God has promised, in his Word.

Forgive my intrusion, reading from some self righteous do gooder is the last thing on earth you need right now for sure.  But the truth is, a preacher asked me one time, (when I was 31, right before I got "born again") and the question was, "Quentin, if you died right now, are you sure from the Bible that you'd have a home in heaven?"  My answer was this...........  "yeah right, I'm sure all right, I'm  sure I'm going to hell, cause there's 10 commandments, and I've busted half of them wide open....................."

That was me, that was my answer, and it was true, I was headed straight to hell for the things I did in my teens and twenties. But I took the time to be a whosever, just long enough to call...... and it has changed my entire life, and all things have been added unto me.  If God will look at the sacrifice of his own son, Jesus, and save "A wretch like me" on his behalf, how much MORE THEN will he save your brother.  A good and upright man.
I pray that you give God a chance, even if you only do it for your Brother's sake before he goes, or his daughters sake, after he's gone.  Find a Bible preaching church that doesn't get into ceremonies, or "new versions" of the Bible, but one that takes the old-school original translation straight from Greek and Hebrew KING JAMES BIBLE and who stands behind a pulpit and preaches God's Word with boldness and authority.  Find yourself a church like that where you live.  Take your brother and his daughter there.

Forgive my intrusion, may our God Bless.
-Q

[eightonezero]

He sounds a lot like my brother. Prayers sent

[Speedballer347]

Thank you for all the replies fellas....Thanks for all the prayers and concern.
I parlayed all of the well wishes to my brother, and he genuinly thanks all of you.

It continues to get worse, now they think it has matastisised to his brain.  I pray it doesnt go from bad to worse.  He will get the final test results tommorrow and take them to a different hospital for a second opinion.

On the outside, he is very strong, acting as nothing is amiss.  He told me today he can't believe it, is terrified, and on the verge of breaking into tears.
He goes on chemo tommorrow, we can just and and pray for a miracle.

I wish all of you would have met him...he is the most genuinly nice guy, not competive, laid back....truly a kind and caring guy.

Please continue to pray for him.
Thanks again everyone!!!!

Erik Nolan #347MW