LIFE IN INTENSIVE CARE
The intensive care waiting room is different from any other place in the world. And the people who wait are different. They can’t do enough for each other. No one is proud. The distinctions of race and class melt away. A person is a father first, a black man second. The garbage man loves his wife as much as the university professor loves his; and everyone understands this. Each person pulls for everyone else. In the intensive care waiting room, the world changes. Vanity and pretense vanish. The universe is focused on the doctor’s next report. If only it will show improvement. Everyone knows that loving someone else is what life is all about. From One Church from the Fence, by Wes Seelinger, from a sermon preached by David B. Curtis on January 4, 1998
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