![]() The familiar signs of anxiety began to flood through my body. I tried to pray, but my mind was only filled with worry and fear.”Īs I laid there in the darkness of that hospital room, my eyes quickly welled up with an overflow of pain and helplessness. “I felt small and scared and so very alone. She was far sicker than I realized when I drove her to the hospital that day, and the reality of it all had left me overwhelmed and unsteady. My heart physically ached in my chest as I thought of the long and deeply difficult journey that had led us to that point and that room there that night. She looked so small and frail in that hospital bed. Outside the small window, city lights poked holes against the black veil of night and cast shadows on the wall above her bed.Ī too-big hospital gown fell loosely over her tired body, and wires strung from her chest to the monitors beside her bed, blinking with the rhythm of her heart as I held her hand and she drifted off to sleep.Ī hard vinyl couch beside the wall was my bed as a nurse sat with us in the room, monitoring her through the night. It was nearly 2:00 AM in the middle of a dark February night last year when they wheeled my daughter from the emergency room to her inpatient room on the fourth floor of a children’s hospital in Atlanta, two hours from our home. It’s one of my greatest joys to welcome Jenn to the farm’s table today… And as two very close friends who can testify to this truth, two mothers, two daughters of the King of kings, Jenn and I have long walked together through some achingly dark nights of the soul, standing with each other, kneeling with each other, grieving with each other, breathing prayers with each other, for each other, and the hard things become holy things as we bring them to Him. A woman who trusts that God is trustworthy, that He communicates, and a life of intimately communicating with Him, and daily listening to Him, leads to a life of deeply fulfilling communion, even, especially, in crisis. I’ve personally and deeply known Jenn Tucker as one of my dearest friends for the last 8 years & she is nothing if not a genuine woman of the Word.
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