Goodbye Friend

My friend Gina’s father passed away last night.  I’m so sad to hear that he’s gone.  I’d only just recently met him when he came out here to stay with Gina and Tom around the holidays.  He has been fighting cancer for sometime now.  Gina would bring him to church when he was feeling up to it, and I remember the first time she brought him, we all prayed over him.  After the service he was sitting and waiting for Gina to come and get him when she finished with the children’s church service.  Nobody was talking to him.  He was just sitting there by himself.  It broke my heart.  I would talk to him for a few minutes, but I know I could have talked to him more.  He was a man of few words, but he would always put a smile on his face when you said hello and shook his hand.

He had been in and out of the hospital since he came here.  When he first came here, it seemed that he didn’t have a relationship with the Lord.  The first time he was in the hospital, Pastor Kevin went to visit him.  I guess when all was said and done, Wayne decided it was time to accept Jesus Christ as his savior.  And according to the email from Pastor Kevin today, he went and spent some time with Wayne this past Sunday and was encouraged to know that Wayne had fully placed his faith in the Lord.  I hope that Gina can find comfort in knowing that her father is with Jesus now and that he has been healed from his illness.  Even though I didn’t really know Wayne as much as I would have liked, I will never forget his kind face and words.

Another thing to pray for right now is Jacob’s mom.  Evidently she has been in and out of the hospital a couple of times this week due to high blood pressure, diabetes, and something else.  I personally think it’s the wake up call that she needed to see what she has done to herself over the past 2 years.  She basically went into a depression which escalated to her staying in bed and not being active and gaining massive amounts of weight.  She did it to herself.  I pray that she does get better.  I really do.  I don’t want anything to happen to where she’s no longer with us.  But it irks me that there are people with cancer such as Gina’s father who fought until the end.  Yet here is Mary just giving up on life simply because a couple of years ago she got laid off from a job and that was the first  time she had ever been laid off from a job before.  At least that’s where it started.  It snowballed from there.  I’m sure I am probably simplifying the problem a little bit, but STILL.  COME ON ALREADY!!!  You have life to live and you have control still over whether or not you can do something to live it.  So DO SOMETHING!  Don’t just leave your kids and your grandkids because you are too selfish to get out of bed and try to live your life!  Don’t just put any ol’ thing that you KNOW isn’t healthy into your mouth at all hours of the day!  Ridiculous!

Don’t get me wrong.  Her situation is a wake up call for me too.  I’m not in nearly as bad of a position as she is, but it’s time that I stop being the lazy chick that I’ve become.  I have a gym at my disposal, and I need to use it!  I need to eat better, and stop making excuses.

BAH!

Today is just blech!