(un)sure ...

Today, around lunch, the hospital staff called my mate and one of his sons, who was there, in to a meeting. Two other friends happened to just be in town and visited then, so my mate graceously asked them in too. They were told that my mate's wife's brain has kept swelling from the broken eye sockets and face and back of the head, and  it's looking less likely that she'll live. They've just taken her off all sedation while retaining the breathing help, to see what her body does. She (Penny) has also been a friend, like an older sister, to me too.

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God, help my mate as point-man for us all
who will one day lose contact with Penny
for even "little whi-le"'s don't seem small
we frail and needy folk don't seem ready.

But thank you for the music of her laugh,
and her determination to be true

to what love means towards the “other half”,

while using what she has - reflecting you.

And mainly it’s a guess that in this place

of pain and fra-il-ty, we feel a bit

of what you feel in your pain and disgrace

for giving your good gifts to little “nits”...

I know that you would not call people that

since in your eyes we're either little “saints”

or else we're agents of hell, worse than bratts,

and either way you won't force hands, or paint

someone into a corner, they're your kids

and you won’t “make” them be what they will not;

you “birthed” them at the start, then opened lids

and taught their eyes to see, ears to hear what

is true, and mind to see what’s not, though said,

and mouth to comment (and help think), then speak,

you won't destroy them, even when they’re “dead”.

You’d rather call them “sleeping”, ‘coz they're weak

and powerless to rise, but if your Word

(which brought the universe about at first)

is heeded, it gives power as it’s heard;

as Penny did, who’s worth “much more”* - at worst!

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*   “Penny” is not her final (& maybe not even her first) name. Her Father in heaven, has a new name, and much more in store:

...will receive much more in this present age. They will receive a hundred times more houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields—and persecutions as well; and in the age to come they will receive eternal life.  Mark 10:30 GNTD
As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”Luke 11:13 GNTD
“Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one sparrow is forgotten by God. Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!  Luke 12:6‭-‬7 GNTD
Life is much more important than food, and the body much more important than clothes.  Luke 12:23 GNTD
Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds!  Luke 12:24 GNTD
...will receive much more in this present age and eternal life in the age to come.” Luke 18:30 GNTD