The Crops Need Rain But Not Too Much

There is a saying that goes "When it rains, it pours!" I have heard that expression several times over the last several years.  When this whole thing started with my daughter's anorexia, I have never been so scared of losing her because how this disease weakens the muscle, especially the heart.  I told her that in her family there is so many members that have or had heart troubles.  One in particular, her Grandpa Hutchison.
         I could remember once how many procedures he has had over the years, but now I have lost count. I know he was diagnosed with heart failure a couple years ago.  His health has deteriorated in the last month and now he is on a breathing machine at home.
        I think back to the days when he was always working the farm, along with my late husband, his late brother Donald  and his son.  He was always outside doing something with the field, machinery or livestock.  After my husband died in 2006, the activity slowed a bit.  Then Donald passed away.  Now it was just him and his nephew.   Just at the start of spring, planting time, my father-in-law gave up farming because of his health and rented out the land.  It brought tears to his eyes.  So many generations of his family had farmed that land and now he had to stop and face the facts that his health had beaten him.   I knew it was hard on him.
        I pray that my daughter understands that her life is precious as those around her.  I want a very special friend to know that there isn't a day I don't think of him and his heart problems.  It is true, how very fragile and loving the heart is.  I pray that he too will always take care of himself too!

       After the seeds are planted in the spring, the farmer always says "The crops need rain but not too much."  I think the family has had enough rain.