Just be there. Stay.

 Just be there...... Stay......

I love this story so wanted to share:
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 opened his eyes.
He was 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."
The next time someone needs you...    

                                Just be there... Stay...

truth and nothing but the truth

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You can bend it and twist it...You can misuse and abuse it./... But even God cannot change the Truth

t's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.  David Allan

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.  Bo Bennet

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeopn