Gratitudes

 After I have spent some time near a waterfall or a mountain stream,

I come home and think about it for weeks.

I think about how, even though I am not standing there, that waterfall is still

there with the water continually flowing day after day.

 

   I spent one day this week at the hospital, waiting as my oldest brother

 had a 5 1/2 hour surgery to remove a large tumor and his left kidney.  

The waiting room was packed with people of all ages,

 each waiting on news of their loved one.

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I feel the same way after I have spent time in a hospital waiting room as I feel after I have spent time by a mountain stream.........for weeks, I think, even though I am not there, there are people filling that waiting room again today and tomorrow and the next day and the next, each with a burden, each praying and waiting anxiously for good news.

I pray for them, these people that I do not know. 

 People with a burden.  People with a need.

I am grateful for:

• answered prayers for good news of my brother
• sweet friends who will pray for me when I ask
• reminders of grace and compassion

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

                                                          ~Robert Brault

                  

 "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body;

 and be ye thankful."

                                                             ~Colossians 3:15

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