Abound Joy

Over the past several weeks I helplessly watched a friend as she struggled with a sudden unexpected injury to one of her children. It was a momentarily life altering complication that will not leave her the same person she was in the seconds prior to the accident.  It has hurt tremendously to read her blog posts, reading her words as she veered from her usual Joyful self, parts of me could literally feel the pain searing straight to her bones.  Pain of confusion and fear all masked with a little disbelief that she had suddenly been blindsided and slammed into the concrete world that she just couldn't prepare for, a world full of uncertainty and unknowns, a world that only Faith can relish.

In the midst of her tedious yet graceful balancing act of an injured child, healthy children, husband and self deprivation, her heart was being tended to by some extremely beautiful women.  My own heart knows them well.  And my friend is surging through this time with incredible strength and grace and an endless depth of undeniable faith.  At this very moment my friend and her family are slowly emerging from the world of great unknowns back into life, it maybe a more, dare I say comfortable life, but not the life they had or knew.  A new life. It is apparent that the life they are walking toward will be a little slower (for awhile), maybe a little different perspective and  with an unlimited abundance of love. 

One thing is for certain she is a walking testimony to the impulses of life and that no matter how balanced or in control you strive to be or even as sporadic that you think you are ... Life has a way of choosing its own path and its undercurrent pulls you in the direction you need to go and to the place you need to be, a place you are destined.  And the miracle we find is that the valleys that plummet into gorges, especially when looking back, are actually the mountaintops and the convergence of two sets of footprints in the sand into one.