125 - In the Surgical Waiting Room

Surgery.
Major or minor…"just a biopsy"…what an exhausting time for the patient and for those who wait.

If you are about to have surgery, remember to bring God with you into the operating room. Have a prayer, a comfort word, or a melody to soothe you. And for those who wait, these words, written for a friend’s mom as she waited for her husband.

One Hundred Twenty-Five

In the Surgical Waiting Room
For B.G.

Giving my worries over to the waiting,
I step into this apartment of now
You build for me,
A resting place for just these times.

You construct it of hope and memories,
Of great heaving sobs and noisy laughter
That we have collected in equal parts
And stored away to pay this mortgage.

It is a perfect place to just exist,
To read the same sentence again and again,
To start at telephones’ jangle,
To lean against Your loving arm.

In this room You guide me, Blessed Healer,
You fortify my strength for this waiting;
In this room You calm me to courage
For the weighted days and nights to come.