It was late evening when I walked by and looked into the room.
Both legs gone, way up. The rest covered with bandages and surgical draping (caution: graphic image at that link), even his face. What was left of his arms was on boards out to both sides.
My body felt like lead. So heavy I was afraid the floor might give way beneath me. And I thought, this must be like the pain - and the love - Mary felt watching her son die for us.
Then, a voice in my head, saying over and over, “For God so loved the world, for God so loved the world... ”
I asked his nurse if I could gown up and go in.
It was Christmas Eve.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
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