Someone close to me lies now in the care of nurses and physicians. The patient is my wife's father. Having spent Friday night until 4:00a with him, my wife and I have now been with him in the hospital the entire day today. Why?
Why do we humans choose to be in an unpleasant place of suffering for hours, days, and weeks, when we ourselves are well? An environment of pain is a place from which to escape, not endure. Yet, there we were; the desire to leave unheeded.
Perhaps it is the shadow of God that allows us for a moment to overcome the instinct of flight and fear and rise to the greater potential of humanity. If, as scripture declares and I believe, God is love, then we have lived in a moment of it.
