Sunday, July 22, 2012

18 Months

Eighteen months ago today I got that phone call. Now a year and a half later I look back to where we were and I am very proud of our journey. We have fought some amazing battles and come out victorious each time.

We'll always fight the battle of ignorance. But now our skin is thicker and stares don't bother us as much. Heck we hardly notice them anymore. People are going to continue to say some ridiculous stuff. People are continually going to choose to judge instead of accepting and understanding. We will continue to smile and move on and surround our family with those persons who lift us up, not try to pull us down.

We'll always fight the battle of disability. Chaz's disability will always have its own challenges. One by one and day by day we will continue to tackle those. One day Chaz will be the "stair master" and we will continue to compare the obstacles in front of us with the ones we have conquered.

We'll always fight the anger and cope with post traumatic stress. Together we'll figure out what strategies work best and we'll modify them as we need. We will teach our daughters that it is ok to be angry. We will help them deal with their emotions and dry their tears. 

We'll always fight the battle with lack of communication. Everyday it seems we fight another battle with someone not talking to someone else. I don't think I'll ever understand how everyone we have to deal with is on one campus, but yet they can't seem to talk to each other. I always laugh that the patient is the one doing all the communicating and we're all cool with this.

Eighteen months later we are still fighting the fight. Our journey is far from over. Everyday I reflect on all that I am thankful for. God has been so good to our little family. Our journey has been amazing and I can only imagine what God has in store for us in the future.

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  1. Praying right now!
    2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
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  2. Love reading your blog, your story is inspiring! I know how tough things can be with a disability

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  3. Praying so very hard!
    Psalms 142:1-3a I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.
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  4. Continuing to lift up prayers!
    Psalms 55:16-18, 22 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. (22) Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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  5. Lifting up prayers right now!
    Psalms 116:1-5 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
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  6. I know I use this passage often but the words are some of the most comforting in all of Scripture:
    Job 19:25-27 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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