Just Stay~~~~~~~~~~

[Teresa]

Just Stay



A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is
here," she said to the old man.

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes
opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he
dimly saw the

young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out
his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's
limp ones, squeezing a message of love and

encouragement.  The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit
beside the bed.All through the night the young Marine sat there in the
poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words
of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine
move away and rest awhile.  He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the
ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the
hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night
staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other
patients.  Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying
man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now
lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she
did what she had to do, he waited.  Finally, she returned. She started
to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her. "Who was
that man?" he asked.  The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she
answered.

"No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."

"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"

"I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed
his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that he was too
sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed
me, I stayed."

I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey.  His Son was Killed in
Iraq today, and I was sent to inform him. What was this Gentleman's Name?

The Nurse with Tears in Her Eyes Answered, Mr. William Grey.............

The next time someone needs you .... just be there. Stay.

[srkruzich]

And that is the only way i would want that news to be brought to me.  Awesome to think he never had to hear the words, and to die and go to see his son standing there before him!

[Judy Harder]

What a message. I lived each step in my heart and remember when I got a phone call,
telling me that my son had died. Nasty pain, still hurts..................but, Praise The Lord
Jesus was with me through the whole trial of me needing to be in North Carolina and then
He carried me the whole time. P.S. God is always in you and me....................Use
Him and you will survive even a heart ache like this.

Thanks for the message Teresa. God bless you.