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Going home from the hospital after a child's illness is such a surreal experience. It's akin to walking out of a matinee movie; the world looks oddly proportioned and impossibly vivid.
It can also be bewilderingly emotional. As a hospital "frequent flyer" I humbly offer this suggestion: take some time to cry.
Tears can release the fear, the anger, the grief, the joy, the disappointments, the relief, the panic, and even just the boredom of a hospital stay.
Combine a few minutes of tears with a hot bath and you've just bought yourself some sanity. Sanity to cope with taking life off the illusory, hospital induced, "pause" mode.
Romans 8:26 "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words"
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Going home from the hospital after a child's illness is such a surreal experience. It's akin to walking out of a matinee movie; the world looks oddly proportioned and impossibly vivid.
It can also be bewilderingly emotional. As a hospital "frequent flyer" I humbly offer this suggestion: take some time to cry.
Tears can release the fear, the anger, the grief, the joy, the disappointments, the relief, the panic, and even just the boredom of a hospital stay.
Combine a few minutes of tears with a hot bath and you've just bought yourself some sanity. Sanity to cope with taking life off the illusory, hospital induced, "pause" mode.
Romans 8:26 "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words"
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4 comments:
Glad to hear you're heading home. I know that moment of leaving the hospital too well...and the bawl in the shower once we've made it home. Take care!
Deana
I'm glad y'all are home, Susan!
Tears are amazingly cathartic. They are like a deep sigh that enables us to look forward.
Psalms 126
1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dreamed.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
“The LORD has done great things for them.”
3 The LORD has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy.
4 Restore our fortunes, LORD,
like streams in the Negev.
5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
Lifting you and yours up in prayer, Susan!
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