Our Prayers To Others

Frequenting ICUs has brought us to encounter many other families going through their own struggles. We send out prayers to them, as well, for we are all connected. We pray for the young woman with the head scarf. She came in one night with alot of people, but we've seen her by herself in the waiting room nearly every visit. We pray for the man in the elevator who was coming to visit both his wife and daughter in critical condition. We pray for friends of our mother who we ran into here. Their mother is in our thoughts. We pray for a high school friend of mine who works here. She lost her brother in the spring. God heal her family. We pray for all of the families that we have encountered here. We all give each other knowing and pathetic glances as we wait for the huge doors to swing open and reveal our fates for the day.