For the last 4 years my dad has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.  I haven’t talked about this a whole lot here on this blog because it has always been hard for me to talk about.  Nothing has changed in that regard.  This has been one of the hardest experiences I have ever gone through in my life.  

  For the last several weeks my dad’s health has been going downhill significantly.  This has been the cause of my overall silence here at the saltlick.  I guess that I have been pretty clouded and pretty distracted from everything else.  

Here is a site that we have put up as a family to keep people posted on my dad’s health.  It is difficult and hard for me to begin to process.  I have been reading from Ecclesiastes and God has been working in my life.  I keep coming back to Ecclesiastes 3 vs 1 and 11.  Solomon writes that God has appointed a time for everything and everything is appropriate in its appointed time.  

This is a tough pill to swallow.  I am still choking on it as it goes down.  

I think that I need to leave it at this for today.  

I needed to tell you what is going on in my life, why I’ve been silent, and also and more importantly how you can pray for me and my family.  

You can pray for my dad that God would welcome him home soon…  Please pray for each one of us as we say goodbye and go through the roller coaster of saying goodbye to a father and husband.  I love my dad, and I miss him already.

~Peter