Re: something to think about

[Guest guest]

Jena,

I have seen this before but love to read it over and over! What a wonderful

story! Wish more people were like the Marine. Did you hear about the man

that saved another man that was having a seizure in a train station and fell

onto the tracks so the man jumped down and put the man in a trench and laid

on top of him while the train ran over both of them? The oil tracks were on

the man's hat showing how close he was to dying himself. But both are

alive! Truly more people should be that way.

Gentle hugs, Debi

-- Bless

>>

>> A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. " Your son is

>> here, " she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times

>> before the patient's eyes

>> opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly

>> saw the

>> young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out

>> his hand.

>>

>> The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones,

>> squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair

>> so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the

>> young Marine sat there in the poorly

>> lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of

>> love and strength.

>>

>> Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away

>> and rest awhile. He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the

>> Marine

>> was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the

>> clanking of the oxygen

>> tank, the laughter of the night the staff members exchanging greetings,

>> the cries and moans of the other patients.

>>

>> Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said

>> nothing, only held

>> tightly to his son all through the night. Along towards dawn, the old man

>> died.

>> The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to

>> tell the nurse.

>> While she did what she had to do, he waited. Finally, she returned.

>>

>> She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.

>> " Who was that man? " he asked. The nurse was startled, " He was your

>> father, " she answered. " No, he wasn't, " the Marine replied. " I never saw

>> him before in my life. "

>>

>> " Then why didn't you say something when I took you to

>> him? "

>>

>> " I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed

>> his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that he was too

>> sick to tell whether or not I was

>> his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed. "

>>

>> The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.

>>

>> WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL

>> EXPERIENCE.

>>

>> WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN

>> EXPERIENCE

>>

>> THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO ANYWAY. RIGHT?

>> HAVE A GREAT DAY AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE IN SOME LITTLE WAY

>> TODAY!

>>

>>

>> GOD IS SOOOOOOOOOO GOOD.

~:~Jena~:~

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