"Everything is as good or as bad as our opinion makes it." the Fox from Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

That's my thought today. What's good about watching your father in the hospital? Dad has been here for two weeks with pneumonia, strep, staph and congestive heart failure. He's been patiently patient. He flirts with the nurses with that mischievous Big George grin. We've had a steady stream of visitors who recount what Dad has meant to them over the years. He's mentored, encouraged and dispensed what-you-ought-to-do wisdom to men who are now thanking him for his direction. So what's good about that is a peek at Dad the dragon slayer. He's facing a big old fire-spitting dragon of declining health, and he's setting the example for how to take that like a man. He's been the encourager in all of this. He's looking for the good in it, and he's taking us along. In his it-is-what-it-is way, he's letting the adventure unfold. That's a good thing for us all to remember.