Last
year was an extraordinary one. I couldn’t have predicted it, and I
couldn’t have prepared for it. I never would have expected the blessings that came from such difficulty and sorrow. But,
ultimately, what I experienced reinforced for me that God, Creator,
Source, The One (whatever name we use) is truly with us at every
turn, whether we notice or not. What follows are some of the things
I happened to notice. To me, they seem like blessings. There are
four, in particular, that I would like to share with you. To be
honest though, I have to admit that when it began, this piece of
personal history did not seem at all like a blessing - - at least not
to me.
In
January 2011, my youngest sister, Meg, called me. She sounded
strange. She wasn’t talking right. She told me that she had been
struggling for several months with a swollen and painful tongue. It
was not responding to the antibiotics her primary care physician had
prescribed for the “infection.” As she told me about it, I had a
sinking feeling that it was cancer and that she didn’t have a lot
of time left. I kept it to myself. She was “my baby.” I was 12
when she was born and I helped bring her up, as my mother was very
ill.
It
wasn’t until April that the doctor took Meg’s problem seriously
enough to get a better diagnosis. It was
cancer. Thus began my grandest journey with Meg – both literally
and figuratively. Perhaps it is only in hindsight that we see how
grand an ordinary life really is.
Strange is our
situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not
knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
- Albert Einstein
No comments:
Post a Comment