Reflections

Joseph and I were taking a walk together last night (our typical date night), and just reflecting on the previous week. Both of us were agreeing that the entire surgery and healing process were not what we expected, with exception to the first 12 hours in the ICU.  That first night after surgery was quite frightening, seeing your little baby being kept alive with machines and medicine.  Yet it was not long before he started to wake up, and breathe over that breathing machine.  He started to fight! And ever since, each day of healing is what we were anticipating to be a weeks worth. And now, life continues. We feel as though we went unscathed, almost as if none of it happened. It's so peculiar. And what is remaining? For Luke, a beautiful zipper, which will be a little reminder to him to give thanks to God for every living day. And for us? A deeper level of trust.  In his book "Falling Upward",  Jose Escriva talks about our growth in our relationship with our Father, the sanctification process, and climbing the ladder to holiness.  He writes about how most people do not start climbing this ladder, until they are brought to their knees, through what we would normally view as undesirable circumstances.  These circumstances seem so undesirable at the time, but once you are in it, and get through it, you end up so enlightened....