lunch lady land -- life in the cafeteria

I'm really enjoying my job at Harrison County Hospital. I am currently working in the Cafeteria. They have trained me for two different positions and next week I get to start training on another one. Eventually they will train me for every position in the cafeteria. The most recent position I trained for has allowed me a wonderful opportunity that has shown me the reason why God led me to this job.

In this new position one of my responsibilities is to take menus up to the patients at the end of the day. I was watching the progress of one patient pretty much from the time he came into the hospital. He was in ICU for a couple of weeks and then he moved to a private room. This gave me hope that he was getting better. Then I saw that he had five lunch trays for his children to be delivered to his room until further notice. It kind of made me wonder if he might be dying. I had to take lunch trays to the Obstetrics ward when I heard beeping coming from his room. A nurse ran past me and into his room. That kind of worried me. At the end of the day, I was taking menus to the patients and I got to his room. When I went into his room, his children were all sitting there with somber looks on their faces. I asked how he was doing and his son told me that he only had a few hours left to live. When he said that, it completely broke my heart for this grieving family. I asked them if I could pray with them. They told me that they would like that, and when I finished praying, they thanked me. He died that night.

His daughter works at the hospital and I saw her today during lunch. I asked her how she and her family were doing and she said they were fine. She thanked me again for praying with them. It was a real blessing to me. I knew the day that I prayed with them that that was why God has me there. It's at least one reason. It makes me very excited to see what else He has in store for me there.