Living Through The Cross "This is What I Can Do" February 19, 2008

Due to a very serious illness recently, I landed in the hospital for two weeks.   I was miserable.have a new appreciation for people who work in that environment.   One lady especially, for she woke me up each day at 5:30 a.m. to take my blood pressure.   One fateful day, she announced, “I am giving you a bath today.”   With a tube in my nose and needles attached to my arm, I protested. “Oh, you’ll feel much better.”   She skillfully bathed me (one loses all modesty during a two week stay in the hospital).   Then she announced that I was going to move to a chair and sit up for the first time.   “Oh, no,” but pretty soon, I was sitting in the chair.   She then knelt before me, put my feet into a warm bowl of water, and began to wash my feet.   “You know, I go to your church,” she said.   “Really,” I replied.   “Well, not very often because I am usually working.   They use me a lot on Sundays.”   I looked down at her weathered knees, harsh against that floor.   I saw her white hair and her arthritic hands.   She slung a towel over her shoulder and then gently dried my feet.   I had tears when I heard her say, “This is my way of helping.   This is what I can do.”

Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for making me helpless so that I can experience the greatest. Make me more like her.   Amen

Penny Shorow - First Christian, Woodward

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