Finding the Words to Say...

I'm at a loss for the right words. Do you ever find yourself in a situation that you never thought you would be in and just not know what the right thing to say is? My mother-in-law is gravely ill. She is in ICU hooked up to all kinds of things and fighting for her life. She came down with a bug a little over a week ago and tried to kick it on her own. It turned into pneumonia and that brings us to today. She's a young 50 and in pretty good health. This shouldn't be happening to her. However, there she sits highly sedated in ICU in a room with controlled air on a ventilator. All the nurses keep saying is how awful her chest x-ray looks and that her oxygen is so low. I sat with my husband last night and I struggled with the right words to say to comfort him. I looked over at him and he was lost in his own little world of worry. I'm the one with the mother who is fragile and has been in and out of the hospital over our entire marriage. How did we get here where the roles are reversed? It's not familiar territory for me. I am praying my heart out that she comes out of this and comes back to us. We need her. The kids need her. We aren't ready to let her go. She is one awesome woman! She has a little girl at home that needs her too, for my husband has a 9 year old little sister that was an awesome surprise just 9 short years ago. You know in the late hours of last night, it really didn't matter what I said - just that I was there to hold his hand and stand by his side. Funny how the answers are always in the simple things.

Heavenly Father, Please be with her and heal her and bring her back to us. We love her.