W
e knew it was coming, it was inevitable. Some day you’ll get the call… “Mom’s in the hospital, she’s had a heart attack.”
The unfortunate (or fortunate) part about life, is we are all getting old. Lord willing, we’ll live to see our children’s children. In the meantime, we’ll have to make hard decisions regarding the care and need of our parents.
It’s been 10 days, and my mother-in-law Patsy is recovering in the hospital. She is going to have to transfer to a rehabilitation center and perhaps some considerable care beyond that. Karen’s brother has been taking care of her most of his adult life. Some what happens now?
The answers to that and other questions is a difficult one for adult children to answer. There are no clear right and wrong answers. We begin as children and we end as children. Tough stuff for sure.
I’ve sent Karen up to Columbus, OH to help her brother with these difficult questions. This trip occurs at a most inconvenient time, in perhaps one of the busiest and most important weeks of my life. But as I say that out loud, I remember two very core concepts of God: It’s not about me and there is a season for all things under Heaven.
Sometimes we get so caught up in life, it takes a jolt for us to remember the things that really count. For many of us, it’s our friends and family. To say that another way, it’s people. People matter to God. People matter to us. People matter. Make a choice to spend time with family, friends, and other people. The people choice is yours.
Please be in prayer for my mother-in-law Patsy, her son Kevin, and her daughter Karen–my wife.
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