The ambulance finally appeared, and my aunt was transported to the nursing home and installed in a semi-private room where the other patient had a great big TV set which was playing Spanish soap operas.
We’re all upset, we prayed it wouldn’t come to this: but it has, and there was nothing we could do avert it. Poor Aunt Joan. For most of her life–she never married–she and her sisters traveled to almost every country on the planet, back in the 1950s and 60s when people didn’t just hop on a jet plane and go wherever they pleased. You had to have a lot of get-up-and-go, to be a world traveler back then.
There is something wrong with the way our civilization today handles the closing chapter of a life.
Well, there’s nothing for it but to trust in God, who tells us nothing but what is altogether true, and who will keep His promises. Whatever may afflict us now, it’s temporary. When we wake in God’s Kingdom, in His house of many mansions, we’ll be hard-put to remember what was hurting us.
But for the time being, it’s a rough ride.
I’m so sorry : ( I wish there was something I could say to make it better. Just know you and your family are in my prayers during this difficult life transition.
Your prayers count for much.
Thank you.