As I’ve said many times on this blog I don’t usually watch TV, but last night my aunt called me and told me to turn my TV set to CNN and watch Larry King because Tammy Faye Messner was on.

I turned on the screen and I was shocked! She had colon cancer several years ago and it was thought cured until she found it had spread to her lungs.

She now weighs 65 pounds and says she has gained 5 pounds since her last appearance on the show.

I’ve seen movies and still pictures of Holocaust survivors and she looks like one of them. You can see every bone in her body and she says her back and stomach ache constantly.

She gasps for breath and yet she still has her smile and sense of humor. She has an unwavering faith in Jesus as her Savior and said when she dies she knows she is going straight to heaven, as she pointed her index finger upward.

I live about 10 miles from where PTL was in its hey day. I remember all the hateful press that dogged her as well as her first husband Jim Bakker.

I worked right down the street from the federal courthouse where he was tried and taken out in shackles and handcuffs, begging not to be treated that way.

I have seen closely how these two people hit rock bottom and had no way to look but up.

I saw the T shirts in the malls that had an imprint of makeup all over the front with the words “I ran into Tammy Faye at the mall today.” Funny then. She joked about it too, but it was cruel.

Through all of it Tammy was solid as a rock in her faith in Jesus. It was there for all of us to see, but we were too busy mocking her to see it.

She didn’t change, but I did.

I can’t begin to tell you how much I admire her after seeing the Larry King show last night.

Watch the video for yourself to see how thin she is, how she gasps for breath, and her smile and upbeat attitude based on her love and blessed assurance from Jesus Christ Himself.

May God forgive me for any laughing I did at her. I ask you all to pray that God will ease her pain and suffering and will be with her family when that pain and suffering are finished.