This crop is bittersweet.
Sam won’t get to enjoy this harvest – his taste buds are fried from the radiation now. It’s my prayer that in a few weeks or months his ability to taste will return. Anyone who knows Sam knows he loves cooking and eating. It was one of life’s little pleasures for him and it always irritated me that he could pack away the food and never gain a pound.
As I was picking more grape tomatoes tonight, I marveled at the incredible miracle of a seed. How can so much fruit come from one seed planted in dirt? But an abundant harvest really doesn’t happen without some work. Anyone who gardens knows that without weeding, watering, hoeing, bug spray and proper soil, you won’t produce a good crop…. I found that out with my zucchini… crappy soil, I think. Picking the grape tomatoes reminded me that relationships are like gardening too. God is working on my heart about that, but I’ll share that some other time.
Sam has been battling a low grade fever since this past weekend and every couple of hours I was taking his temperature and pushing Tylenol, as you read in my last post. Sam humored me, but I think he was beginning to compare me to Nurse Ratched (think, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).
As I was picking more grape tomatoes tonight, I marveled at the incredible miracle of a seed. How can so much fruit come from one seed planted in dirt? But an abundant harvest really doesn’t happen without some work. Anyone who gardens knows that without weeding, watering, hoeing, bug spray and proper soil, you won’t produce a good crop…. I found that out with my zucchini… crappy soil, I think. Picking the grape tomatoes reminded me that relationships are like gardening too. God is working on my heart about that, but I’ll share that some other time.
Sam has been battling a low grade fever since this past weekend and every couple of hours I was taking his temperature and pushing Tylenol, as you read in my last post. Sam humored me, but I think he was beginning to compare me to Nurse Ratched (think, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).
We were happy to learn today that the blood work they did on Monday was normal. The nurse said that if the fever continues they will do a culture to make sure he doesn’t have an infection.
I asked Sam today, what is difficult for him. He told me that it’s just the duration. He is getting weary of the cure. To quote Gavin Sinclair from his book All Things Work for Good, “The only thing worse than dying of cancer is being cured of it.” I pray that God will give Sam the endurance he needs to fight this battle. It is a fierce one.
I asked Sam today, what is difficult for him. He told me that it’s just the duration. He is getting weary of the cure. To quote Gavin Sinclair from his book All Things Work for Good, “The only thing worse than dying of cancer is being cured of it.” I pray that God will give Sam the endurance he needs to fight this battle. It is a fierce one.
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