Tales from the West Texas Dust
thought, "Poor little guy - he's hurting terribly and he probably doesn't understand what's going on." Hearing the way the nurses and his mother were having to deal with this terrified kid just about broke my heart and made me want to do something out to help him along.
So when one of the nurses came and apologized for taking so long in treating me, I told her, "Don't worry about me - I can take the pain; I've been through this before. Just take care of the kid. He needs you more than I do." I also asked one of the nurses during this process to send the boy an encouraging word from me telling him how brave he was and how good he was - and other statements like that. After that, he seemed to quieten down a little and was a little more responsive to the instructions of the nurses and his mother.
After they were through treating the boy, I was fortunate enough to be able to give him (as he was being held in his mother's arms) a quick wink and a thumbs up sign as they headed out the door back into the waiting room. I will never forget the look in his eyes when he tentatively looked at me and flashed the same sign back to me. The smile on my face and the good feeling from that was worth a thousand words.
After they left, the nurses and the doctor eventually (after a long wait) got around to treating my injury, told me that it was a major sprain, and recommended that I stay around the hotel for the rest of my trip. I was able on the last day of the trip to attend services and managed to fully recover by the time I got home.
They say God places His special angels around the children He loves - and even Christ Himself commanded His disciples to "bring the children unto Me." I later reflected on this incident and wondered if this was God's way of making me put in the spiritual lab time I needed to put the theory into practice.
All throughout my time in school, I was horrific in science and absolutely hated it since I was more of a creative type and didn't see how much relevance it had for me. What is interesting to note about science, though,
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