Friday, December 23, 2016

THAT COUPAL WAS PRECIOUS

I love Christmas. People are so much fun this time of year. 

Visiting Dad in the hospital. He seems to be doing a lot better. IV antibiotics and the nurse put in an order for probiotics. Finally they are testing for MRSA.


The elderly man in the other bed in his room is fighting cancer. He and his wife are so sweet. Somehow we got to talking about God. How great He is and how we can feel His presence within the heart and how we wished everyone could feel His presence and become happy.

The man's wife said something I found unusual for a traditional Christian. She was sure people chose who they wanted for parents. The man shared that he felt so inadequate to help other people and really wanted to help people. Sometimes people come to him but he finds he is so preoccupied with his own difficulties he can't help them. He felt so bad. I tried to reassure him that whatever we do even something very little helps. Even if we can't do the whole job right then and there. We do what we can to help and then God sends someone else to help them a little more and pretty soon they have what they need and are on their way to the Lord. 

I love sharing with Christians. Even if what I am saying or what they are saying is not all rational, is not a quote from somewhere, It is filled with a kind of childlike exuberance. Simply trying to say something that cannot really be expressed in words. And yet is still understood and felt.

They were so generic... although I am sure they were followers of Christ. None of us wanted to find differences we simply wanted to feel right with the Lord however we understood Him. My father generally doesn't enter into the spirit of it but he watches and listens.

So there it was a mini revival at the hospital. That couple was precious.

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