This entry won't be long. It's just to pause and remember a gentleman that I didn't even really meet, except to try and give him a drink. He was lying facing the wall. Sonny, in the neighboring bed told me he was very sick, and wasn't moving much. The next morning when I got there the man was dead. Dying at the Infirmary is not necessarily a sad thing, as to live in that environment is hard, and going to heaven preferable. But I didn't even know his name. I don't think Sonny knew him either. Just one of the transients, who come to die. I just can't imagine passing from life, with no one. No one to care. Did he have family somewhere? A friend? Someone that would miss him? I have to comfort myself, that we are never alone as believers in Jesus. He's there, waiting to walk us home when our time comes. Our passing is never unnoticed by Him.
"Not even a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father...." thank you Lord, that you will never leave us or forsake us. We don't have to fear being alone....ever.
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