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In the waiting room
'...look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others' Philippians 2:3-4
People will often say that relationships are more important to them than anything else, but their actions don't show it. How about you? Relationships are living things and like any living thing if you don't feed and protect them, they will die.
While things are going well we can take the people close to us for granted, then a crisis comes along to remind us how valuable the people in our lives are.
One author writes: 'The Intensive Care waiting room is different from any other place in the world. And the people who wait are different. They can't do enough for each other. No one is rude. The distinctions of race and class melt away. The garbage man loves his wife as much as the university professor loves his, and everyone understands this. Each person pulls for everyone else.
In the Intensive Care waiting room the world changes. Vanity and pretence vanish. The universe is focused on the doctor's next report. If only it will show improvement. Everyone knows that loving someone else is what life is all about.
Could we learn to love like that, if we realised that every day of life, is like a day in the Intensive Care waiting room?' The apostle Paul says, '...if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing' (1 Corinthians 13:2 NIV). He's absolutely right isn't he?!
written by Bob Gass
'...look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others' Philippians 2:3-4
People will often say that relationships are more important to them than anything else, but their actions don't show it. How about you? Relationships are living things and like any living thing if you don't feed and protect them, they will die.
While things are going well we can take the people close to us for granted, then a crisis comes along to remind us how valuable the people in our lives are.
One author writes: 'The Intensive Care waiting room is different from any other place in the world. And the people who wait are different. They can't do enough for each other. No one is rude. The distinctions of race and class melt away. The garbage man loves his wife as much as the university professor loves his, and everyone understands this. Each person pulls for everyone else.
In the Intensive Care waiting room the world changes. Vanity and pretence vanish. The universe is focused on the doctor's next report. If only it will show improvement. Everyone knows that loving someone else is what life is all about.
Could we learn to love like that, if we realised that every day of life, is like a day in the Intensive Care waiting room?' The apostle Paul says, '...if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing' (1 Corinthians 13:2 NIV). He's absolutely right isn't he?!
written by Bob Gass
