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in memory of alan
Categories: forty-blogs-of-lent
Date: 16 March 2012 00:53:13
Forty blogs of Lent
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Alan Hill, 31 Dec 1931 - 9 Dec 2006
After fighting with cancer for over two years, my father-in-law Alan passed away peacefully 0n the afternoon of 9th December 2006. He and his wife, Betty have been a great encouragement to me over the 26 or so years I've known them. Even through the last two years, as cancer progressed through his body I never saw Alan's faith in God waver.
In August in his last year Alan gave a talk at a Christian youth camp near Ripon, which was the breakthrough, the youth there were not used to seeing a Christian admit to being vulnerable.
At the end there was a peace about Alan, his faith seemingly stronger the nearer he got to the end.
I can honestly say that, not just as the Father of the woman I love, (for which I hold him in high regard) but in his own right, Alan has been a great positive influence, mainly by example. I am a richer person for having known him.
God has taken one of his saints home.