A Blessing for Those Who Keep Watch over the Sick
This is a beautiful blessing and a podcast recommendation from our Spiritual Care Practitioner that you might enjoy….
A Blessing for Those who Keep Watch over the Sick
Sometimes love isn’t enough. It can’t save them.
Save us. Save the life we had together.
We are finite. And so much is out of our control.
So bless the ones with the courage to walk all the way to the edge.
Who peer over the cliff, who feel the updraft of the abyss.
And who will do it all over again tomorrow.
Blessed are the hospital room organizers and question-askers. And the more ice chips please gatherers.
The absolutely yes, this hardback chair is perfectly comfortable sleepers.
The over-the-top prayers and weekly infusion companion-ers.
Blessed are the cool cloth bringers and the wake-up-to-get-the-meds alarmists and the I don’t mind taking you to the bathroom carriers. Guarding others from their own humiliation.
Blessed are the ones who stand unblinking into the truth. No matter how terrifying, no matter how life-altering, no matter how inconvenient or unbecoming, no matter how much it costs them.
Because this is the kind of love that sticks.
Blessed are the handholders and truth carriers. They will walk us to the end before they have to let go.
Source/Podcast Recommendation:
Kathryn Mannix: Living with the End in Mind, Everything Happens with Kate Bowler.
Season. 13. Episode. 7 (Oct 15, 2024)
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