Thanksgiving around the corner... Today is November 22, 2013 and my husband is having an inside out X-Ray called a bone scan to see the source of the pain he is in. I wait in the waiting room at the hospital half awake and a woman arrives in the waiting room in a wheel chair with the help of the hospital staff. They rest her chair in front of me. She sits alone (her husband was in the next room checking her in or parking the car) and she sits staring straight ahead and I think, is this not Jesus (Matthew 25: 34-46) and I will be kind I will say hi and start a conversation if she would like to talk. I say hi but she doesn't hear me or she wishes not to talk I wait for her to turn her head towards me to speak again but my eyes are drifting I can barely keep them open. I close them hugging my coat and my husband's like they were blankets and wondering if is ok if I would lay down on the two seater couch I was on just for a moment. Probably not :) . I looked at the woman and she is still looking forward. Closing my eyes and than looking again. One more time and thinking I am going to fall asleep and there she was her head turned to me and smiling brightly and saying, "You must be very tried" and I said, "Oh yes, I am so tired. Sorry. I did not get much sleep. Nice time with The Lord but now I can not seem to stay awake."
She was kind. She said something like you can't give up sleep without suffering somewhere in your day. How true. (How true spiritually too. If we give up on sin we suffer for the good in this little time on Earth). We talked for awhile and they called her name and was sorry to see her go. I told her she would be in my prayers and she said my husband, my family and I would be in her prayers. Her husband turns the wheel chair and says God bless you to me. I am Truly grateful for there prayers and blessings coming from these suffering people. Aww the suffering Jesus. Here I thought I was going to help her in her moment of being alone but it was she that helped me...That is how it always works.
With still at least another half hour to wait. I decide I will walk over to the gift shop and see if there is a small something to get my husband or a cookie he would like sold across from there. Five and half dollars waiting to be spent to say I care. The little walk helped me wake up more too. Arriving at the gift shop there wasn't anything that caught my eye nor at the deli/bakery than I turned to the flower shop and in front is a little Native American girl balloon with a little Pilgrim boy balloon; well, not so little both about 2 1/2 feet tall. I thought of my daughter and her class is having a play and she plays a Native American and has to say a line, "B is for big. The pilgrims sailed across Atlantic Ocean in a big ship caller the Mayflower."
I never give flowers to one of my kids after the plays like some thoughtful parents do. It is usually a drive through $1.00 ice cream or of equal value item but they still look forward to that and say thank you and we chat away. Today I have a whole $5.50 to spend :) and knowing my daughter loves balloons this might be putting a little fun in learning her lines. Plus I still have to make a costume for her and need some ideas. So wish we had a picture of my great great great great grandma she was a full Native American. Boy, I wish she had a journal sent my way too. What would she have said?
I came home and checked my email's and this is what I read.
"...being thankful...Gives us joy: It has been said that the worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank. A major part of joy in life is expressing gratitude to the One (God) who meets our needs. (My wow moment...) Like helium fills a deflated balloon and lifts it to the heavens, thankfulness connects our spirits to the Source (God) of all joy."
http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Family/Faith/2010/nov/thankfulness.aspx?utm_source=nl_focusenews&utm_m...
WOW!
Thank you God :)
1 Thessalonians 5:18"Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
Beautiful and Alleluia :)
God bless you all with a peaceful, joyful and thankful Thanksgiving and enjoying God in all your days, Maria
