“The worst week of my life…”
That’s how he described it…
It was a week in which he would need his faith…
A week in which…
His good friend was in the hospital…
His grandson was in trouble…
And he was not well…
There had been a motorcycle accident…
His friend slid along the ditch…until he hit the concrete culvert.
He was in the hospital starting rehabilitation…
And then, his heart stopped. Twice.
They restarted it each time and his friend survived.
He had done all he could for his friend…
He worried that it wasn’t enough.
His friend needed him…
His seventeen year old grandson needed him too…
He loved his grandson.
He could remember when he was born…
When he was a young child…
He remembered the hope his heart held for the boy then…
If that hope was to be realized, he had to help his grandson…
He had to help him now…today…
Behavior problems had been growing…
His mom took a daring step…
She admitted him to a behavioral clinic.
“I won’t go!” the boy said.
“I don’t need this!”
“You wouldn’t do this if you loved me!”
He went to see his grandson…
“Do you remember,” he asked, “when you were a little boy and no one else could get you to go to sleep?”
“Yes.”
“I would rub your back until you finally fell asleep.”
“I did that out of love.”
“What your mom and I are doing now is out of love…”
“Why would you think I’d ever do anything for any reason but love?”
FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES… Hebrews 12:6
Love won…
His grandson entered the clinic…
His friend in the hospital … his grandson. They both needed him.
He didn’t think about the fact he was following Jesus’ example, setting aside his own needs, his own pain, to help others…
He simply helped where he saw need.
The worst week of his life held still more challenges…
His doctor had not given him good news…
But he had faith that God was with him…
He had faith that God would guide him through his next challenge…
A challenge recounted in tomorrow’s post: Faith in Stressful Times-The Diagnosis.
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. (Deuteronomy 31:8)
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