Sunshine Without Rain is a Desert

My mom and I were talking on the phone today and she sounded so tired. She said Dad is so discouraged right now. He has been in the hospital almost six weeks and he is so bored. The kids and I went to see him on Monday and luckily he was having a good day. Today though was a different story. They now have him on morphine and anti-nausea medicine and it makes him so sleepy. He just told my mom to go home because he was not in the mood to see anyone. My mom heard the phrase the other day that sunshine without rain is a desert and it is such a profound statement. Think about all the trials in our lives as rainy days. Without them no fruit will grow and everything dies. We will literally dry up. My mom says that right now it is downpour with my dad. I just keep telling her that we will al be stronger from all of this. We are all trying to encourage my dad and my sister, Jen, even camw down to visit. I am going to try to visit again this week but Sam has pink eye, again (more rain). I am going to write this phrase out and tape it where I can see it everyday. It is going to be my new motto.