But When Jesus Comes

Steve has been on the front lines dealing with N1H1 in the ICU and it's just so sad! He works 12 hours a day with that virus and it's victims. He can't tell me much, of course. Eveything is vague.... but he does tell me that his patients are 20, 30, and 40 year old normally healthy men. He says there are few women as sick as his patients and the children he has taken care of are not near as sick as those strong young men. Older people seem to have an unexplainable immunity.

Steve told me about a 40 something dad who adopted a little thing from China just last year. I feel for all his patients, but when there is some little tidbit of information that ties them to an interest of mine they become more real. They lose that faceless body-in-a-bed image in my mind and I begin to pray.

I wanted that man with the little China doll to make it. I prayed for him. I wanted the little one shielded from more pain. My heart goes out to the little family... that little girl who has experienced so much loss in her young life.

It's unfathomable that her new daddy is dead. Dead from a stupid flue. What a heartbreak!

Garhett's song from choir rings through my head.

..... Then he looks into their eyes and wonders how he can explain
In this sin filled world we live in why there’s so much pain

But when Jesus comes in clouds of glory
He’ll take the suffering away
When Jesus comes we’ll live in glory
There’ll be no sin, there’ll be no pain
Forever and a day

At times it’s hard to understand the suffering we go through or the times when your world falls in on you
But just hold on to Jesus, and He’ll hold on to you
And in that time of trial you’ll come through . . .

I don't know the family. I don't know their circumstances or how many children there are. I just pray that God will be with them in their grief and pain and that He will see them through.

Steve's off to work again this morning. He may be taking care of the 21 year old on the brink of death today, maybe...or maybe it is the 30 year old, or the 45 year old ... God go with him and give him strength and be His helper in this time of plague.

Stay well everyone! Stay well!