5 Reasons Why I Needed a No Soliciting Sign for Hospital Clergy

5: Why Am I Being Subjected to This?

That’s what I was thinking when I immediately changed my mind, after reluctantly acquiescing to PP’s request to pray for me.

Five days, after my awakening, I returned to the hospital to have a hemorrhage caused by my gastric tube surgically repaired. I had no idea about the hospital chaplain’s conflicts with my secular loved ones during my coma.

Perhaps PP felt vindicated when I initially nodded yes, but I was just being polite. After all, aren’t prayers really for the pray-er? But then my mind raced back to the nursing home priest. Didn’t my desires enter into this? After all, I was the one who was the patient. I shook my head as vigorously as I could, considering that I could barely lift my head.

Any bets on whether PP learned his lesson?

Image credits:

1. Elvert Barnes.
2. Pixabay.
3. Pixabay.
4. Ildar Sagdejev (Specious) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
5. Keith, pic of newly fledged hummingbird from our front porch nest.
6. Pixabay.