Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Without Love


The Holiday Inn was booked so we decided to spend the weekend at All Children’s Hospital…

Well, ok, not really. I mean who really “decides” to go to a hospital, especially for their 5-week-old baby?  I really must say that if there’s ever a need to take a child that age to a hospital, All Children’s is really the place to take her.  Everyone was so nice and considerate and handled us with kid gloves…except for one person.  After we were discharged and safely home with our little angel, I began to decompress and unwind.  As I thought about how one person treated us, making me feel horrible about my mothering abilities, and how all the others had made us feel like it would all be “OK,” this verse came to mind: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal,” (1 Corinthians 13:1).  This scripture is from the “Love” chapter and I’ve never thought of it in regard to anyone other than family or friends.  But really and truly, we interact with human beings—some going through life’s trials and some just going about their everyday lives—and as such, need to treat everyone with “kid gloves.” 

Father, thank you for opening my eyes to see how one person’s tone, words, and actions can raise a woman up or send her crashing in pieces to the floor.  Lord, I pray that I would walk away from this experience would make me a stronger person, but would also increase my capacity to love others the way they need to be loved…the way that I need to be loved. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.

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