Love is patient; love is kind.
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
I recently had knee replacement surgery and stayed in my daughter's home for almost a month until I was independent. Thinking back on my step-by-step progress, I have become very appreciative of the love my family shared.
Love is: your family getting up in the middle of the night to make sure you take your pain medications
Love is: working out everyone's schedules to get you to and from physical therapy
Love is: helping get your clean TED and compression socks on every day
Love is: helping you get your shoes on and tied
Love is: having home cooked meals ready for every meal
Love is: being encouraged and coached to do your home exercise program, even when you don't want to
Love is: cheering your successes like giving up the walker and the cane
Love is: helping you with your shower
Love is: talking with you about your daily progress-and playing cribbage
Love is: getting your warm clean clothes every day and help in getting them on.
I'm sure I could add many more love thoughts, knowing I would not have done so well without my family's love and caring. I have so many things to be thankful for besides my family's care, prayers and calls from family and friends, flowers to brighten my days, my son-in-law putting up grab bars in my home shower, and my daughter's friends contributing comfort food to help in my healing. God has provided me with many blessings, all that I need every day.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for your love given freely to us. Thank you for the blessings of family and friends. Thank you for your healing and providing doctors and therapists to care for us. And most of all, thank you for sending your son Jesus to teach us about love.
Nancy Hall
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