Dust and Compassion

My friend Leslie got in a terrible car accident early Wednesday morning about two hours after she became a first time Grandma. On her way home from the hospital where her little grandson was born, she apparently fell asleep, and her car left the road and hit a tree. She is now at a hospital in Portland, heavily sedated with numerous injuries and long surgeries ahead of her.

I'm reminded again of Psalm 103 that tells us that "As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust." This frame of ours is frail, easily crushed, broken, torn and bruised. I am so comforted by the fact that the Lord knows Leslie's frame, and that as her loving Heavenly Father, He has compassion on her. In Him we hope and trust for the difficult path that lies ahead for this dear family. We will walk it with them.