lessons I am learning

We have an Hermana in the hospital right now.  Her parents have been very upset about everything Dennis has done.  Her mother who is a nurse wanted her daughter to come home immediately.  She demanded that her daughter's meds and procedure be stopped or at least delayed. This is the first time I recall parents behaving like this.  Most are very grateful for the help we are giving to their child. They are usually concerned but polite and trust that Dennis and the doctors at the hospital are helping the best they can.  These parents were very demanding to the point of calling the doctor at the hospital here and trying to speak to him, in his broken English but stating to us that they couldn't understand him.  They demanded that someone be with their daughter who was bilingual 24 hours a day.  We sent a Latino sister, a missionary here at the CCM who is originally from the colonies and who speaks English to be her companion instead of her own companion.

So what am I to learn from all this behavior.  I have concluded, as I have seen the Herman's actions and attitude that children don't have to be like their parents.  If there is a better way, a more Christ-like way that we should adopt than behave like our parents even though we grew up with that and it is programmed into us to behave like they do we need to rise above it and be better.

Sunday, February 28 2016

Dennis and I have made two trips to the hospital today. We went this morning and this evening to switch out companions for the sick sister. I am so grateful that she is off her IV and is doing better. Tomorrow morning she will be discharged. She is well and ready to go back to the CCM after 5 nights in the hospital. She along with her parents is a good case to put behind us. 

Gratitude is a wonderful Christ-like characteristic to develop.