It was Friday and Mac was still recovering from a burnt right foot
though now he was mobile. He was told he could be discharged
the following week around Wednsday but that he would have
to stay off his foot as much as possible.
Even though he would be going home, he knew he still had to
count on the Canfield children to care for Cornelius, Kato and his
rabbits.
He was watching some old reruns on the tv that hung on the wall
across from him though not really focused on them.
At home he didn't own a TV and the cable network he subscribed
to was for his computer and internet provider.
Mac had strongly dissapproved of today's TV programming. If he
bought DVDs he played them on the DVD player built into his PC.
He preferred the old 1940s to 1960s war classics, and dramas as
well as the old 1960s TV programs. His favorite was The Andy
Griffith Show.
Mac reached for the remote and snapped of the TV then just laid
back and chilled. As he did he thought back on the events that
brought him here and the meeting with the Williams man and his
family.
Mac thought of Richard Williams as he, like himself was still here
in the hospital and how he invited Jesus into his life despite the
condition he was in.
Pastor Hal had kept Mac informed of his recovery which so far
had been remarkable. He knew that it was the work of the Lord so
he was not amazed by it. But Mac did praise God mightily for it as
he knew Richard Williams and his wife and daughter no doubt were.
His daughter! The thought of Karen Williams made Mac a bit uneasy.
He recalled when nurse Cindy Hunt brought him to Mr. Williams
room at the request of his family and how Karen had immediately
went over to Mac as he sat in his wheelchair and wheeled him over
to her father's bedside. While the action itself didn't offend Mac in
any way, it still made him wonder. In fact he thought the Williams
girl's action was a nice gesture, so why was he so uneasy?
Mac sat himself up on his bed more then reached to his right to
flip the switch on the right bed guard to raise the head of the bed
more to be a little more upright. He ran his hand over his brown
hair and then leaned back on the raised part of his bed and looked
up toward the tiled ceiling of his room with the flush fluorescent
light fixture shining on him.
As Mac thought over the meeting with Karen Williams, he
thought about his one and only marriage which ended rather
tragically when his wife committed suicide after she lost a baby
and the loss of his career as a firefighter due to a fire-rescue
mishap.
Mac thought he had married a good Christian woman when
he and his wife married and this tragedy nearly devastated
him when his wife had a meltdown on discovering his accident
and the demise of his career as a result. The matter was made
worse when his wife miscarried while she was five months
pregnant with what would have been their first child. It
was that misfortune that sent his wife over the edge.
His wife took her life by downing a whole bottle of sleeping
pills chased down with a bottle of scotch whiskey. He
never kept liquor in the home, so she must have went
out to buy it, he had thought.
The result of this tragedy left him feeling foolish and
deceived. How could she have been a good Christian
woman and do this? he had thought then. A good
Christian woman wasn't supposed to break down when
there was major trouble. Where was her faith? Why
did she lead me on? How did I let myself believe she
was the wife for me? Was I that anxious to get
married and start a family? How could I have been so
blind?
All these thoughts and questions had raced through Mac's
mind and then he realized that in his haste to expand his
firefighting career by leaving the Newberry Fire Department
for the bigger deal in Cincinnati, Ohio he had turned away from
God. When Mac had realized that, he began to relax a little more.
Yeah, Mac thought to himself just now, I had turned away from
God.
Mac then realized he had been overreacting to the recent meeting
with Karen Williams. Karen was simply showing her gratitude by
pushing him over to her father's bedside. Yet he couldn't help the
fact that she may have shown interest in him. Any time he looked
at her when she spoke to him or vice-versa she smiled in a warm
and coqouettish kind of way.
Mac rolled out of his bed, got down on his knees and began to
pray about this situation in his mind.
This concludes Chapter Twenty-Four.
though now he was mobile. He was told he could be discharged
the following week around Wednsday but that he would have
to stay off his foot as much as possible.
Even though he would be going home, he knew he still had to
count on the Canfield children to care for Cornelius, Kato and his
rabbits.
He was watching some old reruns on the tv that hung on the wall
across from him though not really focused on them.
At home he didn't own a TV and the cable network he subscribed
to was for his computer and internet provider.
Mac had strongly dissapproved of today's TV programming. If he
bought DVDs he played them on the DVD player built into his PC.
He preferred the old 1940s to 1960s war classics, and dramas as
well as the old 1960s TV programs. His favorite was The Andy
Griffith Show.
Mac reached for the remote and snapped of the TV then just laid
back and chilled. As he did he thought back on the events that
brought him here and the meeting with the Williams man and his
family.
Mac thought of Richard Williams as he, like himself was still here
in the hospital and how he invited Jesus into his life despite the
condition he was in.
Pastor Hal had kept Mac informed of his recovery which so far
had been remarkable. He knew that it was the work of the Lord so
he was not amazed by it. But Mac did praise God mightily for it as
he knew Richard Williams and his wife and daughter no doubt were.
His daughter! The thought of Karen Williams made Mac a bit uneasy.
He recalled when nurse Cindy Hunt brought him to Mr. Williams
room at the request of his family and how Karen had immediately
went over to Mac as he sat in his wheelchair and wheeled him over
to her father's bedside. While the action itself didn't offend Mac in
any way, it still made him wonder. In fact he thought the Williams
girl's action was a nice gesture, so why was he so uneasy?
Mac sat himself up on his bed more then reached to his right to
flip the switch on the right bed guard to raise the head of the bed
more to be a little more upright. He ran his hand over his brown
hair and then leaned back on the raised part of his bed and looked
up toward the tiled ceiling of his room with the flush fluorescent
light fixture shining on him.
As Mac thought over the meeting with Karen Williams, he
thought about his one and only marriage which ended rather
tragically when his wife committed suicide after she lost a baby
and the loss of his career as a firefighter due to a fire-rescue
mishap.
Mac thought he had married a good Christian woman when
he and his wife married and this tragedy nearly devastated
him when his wife had a meltdown on discovering his accident
and the demise of his career as a result. The matter was made
worse when his wife miscarried while she was five months
pregnant with what would have been their first child. It
was that misfortune that sent his wife over the edge.
His wife took her life by downing a whole bottle of sleeping
pills chased down with a bottle of scotch whiskey. He
never kept liquor in the home, so she must have went
out to buy it, he had thought.
The result of this tragedy left him feeling foolish and
deceived. How could she have been a good Christian
woman and do this? he had thought then. A good
Christian woman wasn't supposed to break down when
there was major trouble. Where was her faith? Why
did she lead me on? How did I let myself believe she
was the wife for me? Was I that anxious to get
married and start a family? How could I have been so
blind?
All these thoughts and questions had raced through Mac's
mind and then he realized that in his haste to expand his
firefighting career by leaving the Newberry Fire Department
for the bigger deal in Cincinnati, Ohio he had turned away from
God. When Mac had realized that, he began to relax a little more.
Yeah, Mac thought to himself just now, I had turned away from
God.
Mac then realized he had been overreacting to the recent meeting
with Karen Williams. Karen was simply showing her gratitude by
pushing him over to her father's bedside. Yet he couldn't help the
fact that she may have shown interest in him. Any time he looked
at her when she spoke to him or vice-versa she smiled in a warm
and coqouettish kind of way.
Mac rolled out of his bed, got down on his knees and began to
pray about this situation in his mind.
This concludes Chapter Twenty-Four.
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