This man has truly bonded with me, when I come in I see a change in his
spirit. He greets me as he says, "Hello my closest friend, I have
missed you this week (even if it is only a few days since I saw him
last) I have never stopped thinking about you, have you forgotten me?"
In response I say, "No, Babe (Siswati for father, it is a form of
respect) I have not stopped thinking about you, I missed you very very
much and I am happy to be with you right now." I love this man so much,
although He is being affected by AIDS our conversation (with or without
words) are not affected, the love that we each feel from each other is
so over whelming and strong that most of the time we don't even say
anything, we just laugh and smile and tell each other how much we love
each other.

Sometimes I think about it, a lot of what we do is just tell each other
how much we love each other, his family and other people in the
hospital laugh at us because of it. But, I think about it, What would
Jesus do in that moment? Jesus was (and is) all about Love, I mean "God
is Love" (1 John 4:8). So isn't that all we need, Love. Such a small
word with so many meanings and so necessary. Although it may sound
weird to the people in the hospital that I keep telling a man how much
I love him, I think to myself, this is all this man needs to hear, and
isn't that what we all need to hear? To think that God is always
sitting by our bed side (as I am sitting by my friend's) just telling
us how much He loves us (whether we are hearing it or not), waiting to
have that conversation with no words but just laughing and smiling with
us. I believe when Jesus came to earth He didn't come here to just
preach messages, but to love. What did Jesus do when He was with His disciples just sitting, I believed, He loved them (that tangible
presence of Love I was describing earlier). But, this is were we come
in, when are we going to respond, accept the conversation and just look
back at our Daddy, our Friend, and tell Him how much we love Him. It is a two way conversation, Love, the ultimate form of communication.