Don't Get Up Without Help

Mom K had a bump on her head and a contusion on her chin, but didn't break anything. Arvo had to leave the ER to go to a meeting, so I was the tag team. I walked into the ER room, where Mom K was being checked over thoroughly.
"Hello," she said, "Now I see why everyone doesn't want me to get up without help."
She has said that before, but unfortunately, the memory doesn't remain, and she will likely continue to get up without help, and fall. There is little we can do but pray she doesn't hurt herself too horribly.

As I drove her back to her nursing home, she told me that she had fallen after going shopping, and when she got out of the car, she got dizzy and fell on the steps into the house. That was true....ten years ago. This fall was in the bathroom at the nursing home. When we pulled up to the nursing home, she asked why we were there.
"To get you lunch," I told her.
And all her lovely friends were at the table, still eating a late lunch. I told them about my busy day, shopping, cleaning, cooking, baking in preparation for my boys coming home today.
"Then why did we stop here for lunch?!" asked Mom K.
And then the ladies asked me if I had heard about the Newtown murders. One knew about it because she is often on the computer.
They all shook their heads and said how terrible it was.
"I don't know how anyone gets through this life without God," said another.
"Me either," I said.
"Tell the waitress to bring you lunch," whispered Mom K.
I patted her hand and told her I had eaten already, and needed to head out now.
"Remember, don't try to get up without help," I said, kissing her goodbye.
The ladies at her table winked at me, and one promised me she would watch her.

My amazing cousin Sue has been contacted by children she taught in Kindergarten at Sandy Hook School 20 years ago! Judging from the comments, they still remember and adore her. The love and kindness she poured into them, they are now pouring back into her as she struggles through the hard days of memorializing the murdered children and helping those left behind.

Don't try to get up without help.
As I returned to my car, I thought of the Newtown children being buried this week and thought that was good advice for us all right now.
Father Lord, as you have helped me stand when my knees are weak, let me now help others.
amen

John 8:16 (NIV)
... because I am not alone. I stand with the Father...

Job 30:28 (NIV)
... I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

2 Samuel 22:7 (NIV)
“In my distress I called to the Lord; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears.




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