The Gift (Continued Again & Again)

After we dressed up the tree Court took off for work and I headed back to the waiting room where I asked Jazmin if she would like to go to the hospital chapel with me. We walked a few steps down the hall and entered a small, bright, yet chilly room. There were a lot of books and information pamphlets on the shelves and ten or so simple chairs had been set up in front of a podium.

We stood at the podium where there were small sheets of paper with questions on them. We each filled out one, the questions were something like:
Who do you request prayer for?
What is their illness?
What would you like God to do in this difficult time?

We then dropped them in a box that said deposit prayer requests here. As I let mine slip from my finger tips, I silently prayed, "Dear God, heal her and take away her suffering. Amen."

Now at this time there was a huge H1N1 scare going around the country, so the hospital was very touchy about allowing ANY children past the lobby. But Courtney and Michelle seemed to know how to slip by. They always got caught later and asked to remove the kids from the waiting room.

On about Thursday Glory's Grandson had gotten ill at school so Glory, being the supportive Grandma that she is, picked him up from school early. She needed to come by the hospital for some reason and called me to say she would have Chase with her. When Robert heard this he blew a gasket directly at me! I told him that I wasn't in charge of Glory and the hospital would take care of it. He just continued to fume at me. All about how germs could go in and out of Mer's room and that Chase needed to stay away. I reminded him that on any given day any one of us could carry germs in and that Chase wasn't allowed past the lobby anyway.

It became a ridiculous fight that I thought I didn't deserve to be involved in. I was so angry at Robert for taking it out on me, that I stayed in Mer's room for a very long time. When Glory did arrive, (without Chase) I shared Robert's issue with her, telling her I was so upset that I couldn't be in the same room with him or I'd bite his head off! She calmed me down and we decided that I would go to her house, where Jazmin would cut my hair and then we'd just hang out.

The three of us, Glory, Jazmin and I, took off. Jazmin set me up for a hair cut and we all discussed our day. In the middle of the cut I announced, "Hey, I don't feel so hot. If I jump up and run to the bathroom you'll know why."
Snip, snip, comb, comb. Up I jumped and headed like a bullet for the bathroom, where I barely made it before losing my lunch. UGH! NO WAY! I CAN'T BE SICK! I JUST CAN'T!

The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"
Exodus 2:13

Love You Mer