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The Dude Abides

Last updated on: May 9, 2007 at 4:44 pm   by Cathleen Falsani

2007-05-09T16:44:00-07:00 Cathleen Falsani

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PRAY FOR TAMMY FAYE

We’ve always had a soft spot for this woman, with her wigs and bad makeup, and what has genuinely felt like a sincere faith and pathos underneath it all. Even in the dark days. Even during the scandals and the histrionics and the mascara running down her chipmunk cheeks. She’s a pistol and we love her, in spite of (no, really, because of) herself.

Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner is gravely ill. She’s battled colon and lung cancer on and off for a number of years and today posted on her official web site a note indicating that she’s at death’s door and suffering terribly. But still … that pluckiness.

So, remember Tammy Faye today.

GGHQ

Here’s what she had to say on her web site today:

My Dear Faithful Friends,

Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, 4th of July and several birthdays of family and friends. Envelopes have become separated, or they are still in piles all over the place to send as yet. I have been on so much medication, so many have been trying to help with thank-you notes……I don’t know.

Thank you for the rooms full of flowers, the tables full of cards, and beautiful little gifts laying everywhere. Thank you so much! I know I have missed so many gifts I should have sent for these special occasions. And then, trusting God to heal my sick stomach. Please try to understand.

The doctors have stopped trying to treat the cancer and so now it’s up to God and my faith. And that’s enough! But please continue to pray for the pain and sick stomach.

My precious daughter, Tammy Sue, and her wonderful friends are staying with me while Roe builds churches. They don’t want me falling down the stairs. I am down weight wise to 65 pounds, and look like a scarecrow. I need God’s miracle to swallow.

To those of you who are suffering as I…..”don’t give up”!! Make up your mind you’re going to LIVE !! That is NOT EASY! The path gets so long. I look at young people and wish with all my heart for just one day of “feeling great”. You see, God gives out his promises, they do not lie, they do not fail. We do not have to BEG him for them, they are FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You CAN make it!
Love,
Tammy Faye

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