Just Stay...
A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
"Your son is here," she said to the old man.
She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's
eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he
dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside
the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped
his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing
a message of love and encouragement.
The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the
bed.All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly
lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words
of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the
Marine move away and rest awhile.
He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine
was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital – the
clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members
exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.
Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man
said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.
Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now
lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse.
While she did what she had to do, he waited.
Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but
the Marine interrupted her.
"Who was that man?" he asked.
The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered.
"No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"
"I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he
needed his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that he
was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much
he needed me, I stayed."
WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A
TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.
WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A
TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE. (love this line)
PLEASE PASS THIS ONE ON AND GOD WILL BLESS
YOU!
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO
ANYWAY. RIGHT?
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HAVE A GREAT DAY AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE
IN SOME LITTLE WAY TODAY!
GOD IS GOOD!
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