A walk in the garden
The day was mainly good. My intestines are in a tizzy, but nothing that I can't deal with, given enough nurses and drugs!!
Most of the morning was taken up with transfusions of platelets and RBCs. When that was complete, we had lunch and then went for a walk outside. The weather was perfect, and the sun felt good on my shoulders. My room is actually pretty cold all the time, so I am always covered up with my afghan. I am sure I look like a perfect doddering old geezer. So, the sun was a real blessing.
There is a nice zen garden in the courtyard of the hospital. It is beautifully planted, and there is a water feature that is essentially a small waterfall that chuckles into a stream. There are plants here and there among the rocks and people have brought little "friends" to reside in this area: a rubber ducky and some other small rubber creatures that look like something a child would enjoy in the bath,
We hung out in the garden for perhaps 20 minutes. Jill took a selfie of us, which many of you have seen already.
Don't be confused. I really am sick, but this was one of those perfect moments in time, when all the troubles of the world evaporate. For just a moment, it was just Jill and I and the chuckling water and the warmth of the sun. Perfect.
"...whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." (Philippians 4:8)
Beautiful beautiful the Lord is beautiful what an inspirational post
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