I know that my post yesterday was sucky. As a matter of fact, I felt sucky for most of the day yesterday and there is one simple reason for it…cancer is sucky. Losing people to cancer is sucky and living in a world without those people, even if they are strangers, is sucky.
But today is a new day and for each new day, the universe shows us new miracles and provides the opportunity for new balance again; A balance that we might not be inclined to see at the time but still exists nonetheless. In order to help reinstate a sense of balance in myself, I felt it appropriate to conclude my recent mention of death the only way I know how…with life. And in the coming months, there will be much of it to celebrate.
One of my very closest friends is having a baby!
My friend beautiful Marie, who you’ve heard mentioned here many times before, is one of the most wonderful people I know. I count myself extremely lucky to call her my friend and hope that we will have countless more years together to put under our belts. She is brilliant and ambitious, loyal and committed, humble and accepting, and most of all…has no idea just how spectacular she is. Even now, I’m sure that as she reads this, she’s rolling her eyes in humble disagreement! And my beautiful friend Marie is pregnant with a baby boy (or, as she puts it, she’s having “a dude”!!).
Her and her husband, Craig, have had to endure some very difficult times. They have gone through more in their young marriage than most will ever have to face in their whole lives. They have lasted through consecutive years of challenges and been given countless reasons to be angry with the world and yet, they are not. Instead, they take each step one at a time with a stamina and sense of humour that is most endearing. Marie often jokes that her and Craig are “all class” but, her jokes aside, there is so much more truth to that statement that she will ever know because it takes a great deal of maturity and refinement to take the consistent pounding of life and still maintain optimism. No one knows the eloquence of coping with adversity better than these two.
I wish that I could say that this new development in their lives was making up for all of their past roadblocks, but unfortunately, even this has forced them to find strength within themselves that is beyond the call of duty. Already, in the very early months of this miracle, they have had to cope with loss and make choices that none of us want to have to face. They have had to sacrifice one life for the possibility of another.
Finally though, after months of uncertainty, God has provided them with the gift of calmer seas. The waves have died down and now it’s a matter of finding their way back to shore. In about fives months, dry land will appear and the breath of life will turn their world upside down. In about five months, a little boy will open his eyes and have no idea just what a miracle he really is.
Baby Beckett…we are patiently waiting for you!! There’s a miracle on shore with your name on it…
But today is a new day and for each new day, the universe shows us new miracles and provides the opportunity for new balance again; A balance that we might not be inclined to see at the time but still exists nonetheless. In order to help reinstate a sense of balance in myself, I felt it appropriate to conclude my recent mention of death the only way I know how…with life. And in the coming months, there will be much of it to celebrate.
One of my very closest friends is having a baby!
My friend beautiful Marie, who you’ve heard mentioned here many times before, is one of the most wonderful people I know. I count myself extremely lucky to call her my friend and hope that we will have countless more years together to put under our belts. She is brilliant and ambitious, loyal and committed, humble and accepting, and most of all…has no idea just how spectacular she is. Even now, I’m sure that as she reads this, she’s rolling her eyes in humble disagreement! And my beautiful friend Marie is pregnant with a baby boy (or, as she puts it, she’s having “a dude”!!).
Her and her husband, Craig, have had to endure some very difficult times. They have gone through more in their young marriage than most will ever have to face in their whole lives. They have lasted through consecutive years of challenges and been given countless reasons to be angry with the world and yet, they are not. Instead, they take each step one at a time with a stamina and sense of humour that is most endearing. Marie often jokes that her and Craig are “all class” but, her jokes aside, there is so much more truth to that statement that she will ever know because it takes a great deal of maturity and refinement to take the consistent pounding of life and still maintain optimism. No one knows the eloquence of coping with adversity better than these two.
I wish that I could say that this new development in their lives was making up for all of their past roadblocks, but unfortunately, even this has forced them to find strength within themselves that is beyond the call of duty. Already, in the very early months of this miracle, they have had to cope with loss and make choices that none of us want to have to face. They have had to sacrifice one life for the possibility of another.
Finally though, after months of uncertainty, God has provided them with the gift of calmer seas. The waves have died down and now it’s a matter of finding their way back to shore. In about fives months, dry land will appear and the breath of life will turn their world upside down. In about five months, a little boy will open his eyes and have no idea just what a miracle he really is.
Baby Beckett…we are patiently waiting for you!! There’s a miracle on shore with your name on it…
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