Emphasis Preaching Journal

For many months this husband has lain sick with a disease so fearful that, even in our modern age, we hesitate to call it by its name. His wife has watched her once strong man slowly but surely waste away. Once so full of life and ambition, his world has shrunk to a hospital bed bounded by siderails. Everything is strange: the bed on which he lies; the bottles that hang above; the food he struggles to eat; the curtains and the ceiling and the walls. Even the doctors, who come briefly, confer quietly together, and then depart.