I saw God's face again

I was in a new patient's home to enter him into the hospice program. One of the standard questions that we try to gently ask is what is his goal as part of the hospice program. In labored breath and looking his wife straight in the eye said: " I want to be able to put my head against my wife's head and smell her hair for as long as I can." The electricity was so strong between the two..another moment when I saw God's face and it was love.

visitor at mama's side

She was a nurse working full time at the hospital taking care of her husband and adult Down's syndrom child when she brought her mother home to her house to die. FMLA was invoked and she was able to stay at home with her mother.

It was during caseconference that I got a frantic Thursday morning call from her. Something has happened to Mama, we need to get a pain pump on her right away. I reassured her that I would be there as soon as I could get away from the meeting. I was surprised to find her talking quietly to another daughter expecting her to be needing reassurance.

But I'm getting away from the story. Her daughter that was visiting brought a grandchild and they had stayed the night. I talked to both of them of the signs and symptoms of approaching terminal event and all that would /could be done was to keep her mother comfortable. That she could expect her mother to talk to people that noone else could see,...usually someone they loved that had gone on before...the granddaughter gasped, " That explains it!" and the patient's daughter started smiling..I asked for an explanation...

When the granddaughter arrived with her baby she placed him on the sofa in a ''punkin'' seat. The child cooed and smiled, looking up towards the ceiling most of the day, did not whimper, fuss or cry..and the patient was talking to her late husband...The daughter added to the story that during the night her Down's syndrom daughter was heard talking in her bedroom during the middle of the night, when her mother asked her the next morning who she had been talking to she replied, "grandpa". Granddaughter said that she now understood why her child was so happy, Greatgrandpa had been playing with him....angels visits are truely special. love mom

angel story

I checked my watch when a late night call came in and again as I left the house to head for my pt's home...then realized my watch had stopped.

This was one of my own, taken down that path that we all must travel. His wife told me that he was in bed and suddenly reached up toward heaven and called, "Jesus, take my hand!" At that moment his hand dropped to his side and he was gone. When I asked what time this was she told me....It was the time my watch had stopped...I loved this family... mom

hospice nurse story

I got to work this morning and listened to the oncall nurse's weekend report.
She reported going out late Saturday night to an expected death. What was unusual was that as soon as she pronounced the patient dead the lights in the house went out. They remained out until the funeral home personel exited the home and then the lights came back on...Family said that mama was telling them that she was still in control!

angel choir

Monday night I was sitting with a family waiting for the funeral director to come to their home. While visiting with a caregiver I was reminded about what Bro. Hendrickson told me many years ago when I was a teenager.

Bro Hendrickson had picked me up to take me to his home to babysit. It was one of those dark Iowa nights with the stars sparkling. I do not remember all of our conversation as we were driving but he told me that there were times that he hears heavenly choirs singing as he travels. I think I was skeptical about this prounouncement.

Monday I remembered his statement when a caregiver stated that just before this elderly woman died she heard choir music. No radio or tv were on but she turned to the patients daughter and she too acknowledged hearing a beautiful choir sing.. It was only minutes later that my patient died.

I was thrilled to know that others hear the angels sing.
love, mom

Nurse in White

I walked into my patients bedroom and pulled a chair up close to her bed. She was too weak to get out of bed now. I asked if there was anything she wanted me to do for her and was surprised when she responded that she wanted the nurse to her her a bath.

I told her I would be happy to do this for her and she stopped me before I could get up to get the bath supplies. She then said she wanted the nurse that came in behind me, the one that was in white , to give her the bath. I looked around her room and saw here sister and daughter standing at the foot of the bed. They were both in blue jeans and t-shirts.

I returned to her home a few days later and her daughter met me at the drive way. I asked her if she remembered what her mother had requested. She smiled and nodded , yes. I tolk her I was thinking about it while driving up to their house and it had suddenly hit me that her mother had seen and angel follow me into the bedroom. The daughter smiled and said she and her aunt had talked about this and they too realized that angels were in their home.

It so sooooo neat to know that angels follow me.

God's Face

GOD'S FACE

I saw God's face today .
I saw it as I watched two people express their love,
knowing that he would leave her behind.
They spoke this love not in words but with a look.
Feelings so strong.
I saw God's face today
and It was Love.

I saw God's face today.
It was in a daughter's look
As she stoked her dying mother's hair tenderly.
she will be left behind soon.
She spoke of a mother's love not in words but with that look.
I saw God's face today
And It was Love.

I saw God's face today.
It was in an look to check a sweetheart's needs.
"Preacher man married us, that's what she's waitin' for."
In his eyes you see the fear of loss coming too soon.
I saw God's face today
And it was Love.