callmeloquacious

We’re here now. At the hospital. The curtain is closed but the machines are beeping. We can hear them changing her sheets and cleaning. We are waiting for the update.

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Every night one of us in the boys’ room until (at least) Burkley goes to sleep. (Otherwise that boy is a wild card and thinks it’s cool walking around his room playing or jumping on his bed.)

On my nights the pick songs and I either play them or sing them. These days Burkley’s favorite song is Psalm 23 Still Waters. And then we hear the other Psalm 23 song.

Last night I’m laying on their floor propped up by the Lion pillow and listening to the words I have had memorized since I was 8. “though I walk through the valleys of the shadow of death I don’t have to fear no evil, for I know that you are with me…”

We are there now in the valley . And I’m reminded over and over God is with us. God is there in the waiting. He is with us in the after.

I know the end of the story. I know where my hope is at. I know that if the outcome is not what we want it will be okay. The hope I have is not in this earthly life but it is with Jesus. It is my eternal home.

So we wait. And we pray and we sing. And we trust in the one who loves us all best.