VN April 2022

Vetnews | April 2022 37 Story I have enough food to eat. They don’t even seem to care if we die of hunger here among the opulence ”? Waves of self-pity washed over me while I felt like someone, locked away on a desert island, completely isolated from any human contact. I subsequently discovered that the carer on duty had been in a bus with another occupant that had contact with a Covid case the day before. Then a verse from the bible came to my mind. Something the Apostle Paul heard in the face of an incurable disease. “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness,” says the Lord. For the rest of the day, I kept reminding myself of those words. “My grace is sufficient for you”. OnSunday, I rose early topray and spend timewith the Lord. During that time, I desperately said to Him, “Lord, you have promised that your grace will be sufficient for me. Won’t you manifest your grace to me so that I can see it”? I coped better with Emily that day and the next. On Wednesday afternoon, there was a timid knock at the front door. When I opened it, I found a circle of ten people standing back a few metres. Lookingatthem,Irealizedthatthesewereallofmyneighbours. Each one had a piece of paper in their hand, and together they started singing the song that they had just been practising to me. It was the hymn “Amazing Grace”. God was answering my prayer. Here was the manifestation I had asked for. They continued to sing the whole hymn through, wishedme well and departed. Therewas such amassive lump inmy throat that I could not even thank them. I continued for the next two months to care for Emily like that. I became more and more proficient and used to doing it. While tending to her most intimate needs, a deeper bond formed. A bond of love, which transcended anything I had felt before. Then I discovered that our health care has a service to patients’ homes to do what I was doing. The advantage is that they come in pairs, which is necessary now to be able to handle Emily physically. Looking back at that time two years ago, I had learned an enormous amount. My love for Emily and determination to see her comfortably through the next phase has firmed. The change of the carer arrangement happened just at the right time. The six ladies involved now have formed a teamwith me. We have shared much, often laughter and sometimes tears. We have prayed together, and I have seen each one’s love for the lord blossoming. As I sit here today, I look out across the Cape Flats at Table Mountain in the distance, with its many moods. I have watched various sunsets, where the Lord has splashed the most amazing colours from His inexhaustible palette across the skies. The sun is also setting for us, but I look forward to a “New Dawn” where I will join the “Marriage Supper of the Lamb”. Thank you, dear readers, who have followed my stories until now. Thank you for coming into my life and joining me in this fantastic journey, an opportunity to discover and live my life’s passion, which only the Lord could have done for me. v