[Magdalen] They that wait on the Lord (repost)

[Judy Fleener]

I loved reading this.
Judy

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What a wonderful, wonder-filled, story.
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is a repost of part of an earlier e-mail which, on reflection, I
> think
> > belongs by itself. If you read it the first time and it didn't speak to
> > you, feel free to ignore.
> >
> > Yesterday's OT reading was one of my favorite passages from Isaiah, "They
> > that wait on the Lord". For some reason, that always makes me think of a
> > home health patient we had back in the early 90s. She wasn't my patient;
> > she belonged to another nurse, one who trained me, but I met her my first
> > week, and the relationship between her and her nurse was one of the
> things
> > that bonded me to home health for a number of years. Miss Lucille was an
> > African-American lady of considerable age and dignity and great
> sweetness.
> > She and her husband had had a small dairy farm and raised a bunch of
> > children through the Depression in rural Hamblen County, TN, and she
> > enjoyed telling stories of that time. The one that has always stuck with
> me
> > has to do with her going to look for a cow that had gone missing during a
> > snow, and finding that the cow had given birth, but the calf was so weak
> it
> > could barely stand and the cow wouldn't leave it. She picked up the calf
> > and carried it back through the snow to the barn, and the mother
> followed.
> > Her nurse, also a farm girl but from Mississippi, said she bet that
> wasn't
> > the first calf Miss Lucille had carried home, and Miss Lucille allowed as
> > how that was so, "and not the only one in the snow, either!" She said God
> > would always give her the strength, and quoted that verse from Isaiah.
> Now
> > whenever I hear it, it always brings up the image of (a much younger)
> Miss
> > Lucille struggling through the snow with a newborn calf in her arms.
> > Somehow I think both she and God would like that.
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan