One day an elderly man entered into a hospital. He was grumpy from being on medication and the nurse’s thought him to be insane as he yelled for his wife to get the apple basket. By the time they had checked him into his room the nurses were exhausted from the fight he was putting up.

He almost didn’t see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road. But even
in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in
front of her Mercedes and got out.

Say! Let’s forget it! Let’s put it aside!
Life is so large and the world is so wide.
Days are so short and there’s so much to do,
What if it was false–there’s plenty that’s true.
Say! Let’s forget it! Let’s brush it away
Now and forever, so what do you say?

One of our favorite patients had been in and out of our small, rural hospital
several times, and all of us on med-surg had grown quite attached to her and
her husband. In spite of terminal cancer and resulting pain,

A large family with several children had just moved to a home in the country. The children were delighted to discover that on the property there was a pond suitable for swimming. On a bank at the side of the pond a young oak tree was growing. The tree was so young that its trunk and branches were thin and quite flexible–not capable of supporting much weight.

Timmy was a little five year old boy that his Mom loved very much and, being a worrier, she was concerned about him walking to school when he started Kindergarten. She walked him to school a couple of days but when he came home one day, he told his mother that he did not want her walking him to …

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom and also the thorns. And he thought, “How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns?”

He is right there with you as you draw each breath,
He is wanting you to come to Him as you would go
to your parent here in this life,
He is your parent.

A man’s daughter had asked the local pastor to come and pray with her
father. When the pastor arrived, he found the man lying in bed

If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place,
but have not love, I am a housekeeper–not a homemaker.
If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements,