I am facing the very situation that Sarah Palin and her followers are desperately afraid of. My 84 year old grandfather is in the hospital. And he is dying.
I guess this is the moment when I should change everything I believe and take the ‘me first’ attitude they believe we should all have. Where I say to the world; do anything, spare any expense, forget about fairness and everything else and save my grandfather. But guess what- I m not.
He is 84 years old and, while I don t want him to die and even the thought of him dying is painful, the fact remains that he is human and he will die, as we all will. If it is his time, it is his time. All that I can reasonably hope for and try to ask for is that his death comes with as little pain as possible. I wish a dignified death for him.
Sarah and Company claim to have a strong and abiding faith in God. Yet somehow that faith goes out the window when it comes to death. God chooses our time of reckoning, not man. Do you think that He does not use human agents? Do you think He does not use the systems in place to assist Him in His will? Forget the fact that Sarah is embarrassingly wrong about the whole ‘Death Panel Provision,’ even if it is so; wouldn t God use it and us to bring about the next stage in our lives and bring those who are dying to Him?
I will mourn when my grandfather dies and I m sure my gut reaction will be to question why? Why now? Why him? But it is not a politician or a ‘death panel’ I will be asking, it is God. Maybe Sarah and Company need to question their faith a little more before making blanket and inaccurate statements about what they have obviously not even bothered to read.
When it comes to death, mankind does not ordain it. God ordains it, sometimes through the work of human hands.
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