Such a beautiful unselfish example of the love a man has for his wife

I was talking to a 56 yr old guy today about life as he's dying from pancreatic cancer.

Yep that's the kind of conversations I get to have in my job.

He told me by the time he was diagnosed the tumor had already spread too far, so now all they can do is give him a few more months, maybe a year.

As we talked he never gave me one hint that he was sorry for himself ,

he joked a bit with me just talking about life as he knows it now.

I was thankful to have time to listen

The thing that grabbed my attention was when he said this....

He said, "you know what bothers me the most about all this (having terminal cancer)? As his voice shakes a bit he says....

"knowing my wife will have to shovel, she shouldn't have to do that"

I had all I could do to hold it together,...whew.

Now that's a man's love for his wife....

It seems so small, but so important to him as a husband. To provide for his wife, to care for her, to show love to her in little things like shoveling the driveway.

This cancer thing is wearing me out.... No, I don't have it but the patients I care for do... I see it everyday, I hear the sadness in their voices as the hope dwindles, I see their pain in procedures that spare them some time. I see their families, the one who love them...who care for them. All I can do is listen, hold their hands and later...on my way home from work...

Pray

Pray that they know Jesus, and that the hope we have in him is far greater than life as we know it here on earth

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later. Romans 8:18