Over the course of the last few weeks things have been very crazy in my life.  I am specifically speaking of my wife’s pregnancy and her many stay in the hospital that concluded with the birth of our son Micah John Monda Micah meaning “who is like the Lord”.  For me it has been a constant running back and forth from the hospital some nights staying at the hospital in this chair and getting little sleep, other nights coming home getting things done with my daughter then back to the hospital the home and to bed only to repeat it all the next day.  In addition to this trying to get things ready for our move to Missouri.

For my wife it was the uncertainty of not know when the baby would come.  It was her looking at her husband and realizing there was really nothing she could do to help as she was stuck in that hospital bed until the baby was born.  She could see it on my face and tell it in my body language that I was having a hard time with getting everything done.  These times were difficult for us both.  

However that is not what this blog is about.  What has amazed me in all of this are the times that people that barely knew us would make comments to us.  It started with one of my wife’s doctors coming in and telling us she was impressed with how pleasant we always are when she sees us.  That was cool to hear coming from the dr.  that deals with many different people all the time.  She proceeded to tell us that she has spoke with the other doctors and they all seemed to feel this way.  This was great for us to hear because it told us that there was something different about us that others could see and could tell.  

The next thing that happened was while we were sitting in the room one day a nurse walked in and said we wanted to let you know how much we appreciated your patience the other day.  you were so nice to us and never complained any time and were always nice to be around. The nurse had said she specifically remembered my wife.  So she said we got a WAWA gift card for you.  I was kind of like wow how often do you see this happen in the hospital how cool was that.  

Finally one of the days one of my wife’s doctors came in and wanted to talk to her a little bit.  As she came in and spoke with her about how she would have stay in the hospital she talked about how it stinks when stuff like this happens to great people.  This really moved me.  All of this has moved me to know that it is in the hard times that people watch you and they watch your responses to others and they watch how you interact and they watch what you say and the things you do.  

What’s cool is if you living for the Lord people will notice.  They notice that there is something different about you that things are not the same with you as with everyone else.  At a time when I needed some major encouragement it came from and unexpected source.  However God knew what I needed.  He is so good.  I just right this to say we chose to be different and to let our light shine and often enough we do things that put our light out.  Don’t let that be the case.