Whats Really Important

Usually I walk around in kind of an ignorant bliss. My crisis’s this year have consisted of a teenager and chewing tobacco, shunned teenage girls , or being a mediator in a family disagreement. I walk around sometimes quietly passing judgment in my mind on complete strangers in situations I know nothing about. Then out of the blue, something will snap me back to what’s really important. The phone rang,my wife screamed, and reality came quickly. My nephew, who is going to be a senior this year, was broadsided while driving his car. He’s in a coma, on life support.

I can only think of his parents. Sitting in that darkened room listening to a machine make sounds of rushing air pump life into his body. Wondering how this whole situation is going to turn out. I think what if that was us watching one of our sons instead of them. It easily could have been.

So today, I say a little prayer. Lord, please help their son recover. Let him throw water balloons at teachers, skip class, egg the school, and do all those things kids are supposed to do their senior year. Let his parents get mad at him, ground him and stress over these little pranks, instead of going through what they are going through now.

And Lord I want to thank you for keeping me in this ignorant bliss. I hope to stay in it the rest of my life.

Amen



This happened about two weeks ago. My nephew has since been taken off from life support and has moved to a rehabilitation hospital. If you want to keep up with him, you can at Updates on Alan Hong Any and all prayers are more than welcome.