If you will allow me, I'd like to speak metaphorically for a few minutes.... I'll try to clarify the metaphor, but if at any point you don't understand, please feel free to ask =)
As you read on my last post, we just rose to a mountain top last week! We are still basking somewhat in the amazing view of our oldest daughter no longer having an anaphylactic food allergy, or any at all now! Praise The LORD!!!!
We are also acutely aware of families around us and in our community who are walking in very dark Valley's right now. There are 2 families with very young boys that have been in the dark valley of fighting cancer for 2 years... both of these young boys have come very close to losing their battle but are somehow still fighting in their weakness.... if you feel so led you can pray for Christian and Jayden (friends, not brothers) to have miraculous healing and for their families to have renewed strength and comfort. And yesterday a family (Wife/Mom and 5 kids ages 7-14) at the (small, private, Christian) school my daughters attend was plunged into a very deep very dark valley when their Dad was unable to survive his injuries after being broadsided on a nearby highway. My heart aches!!! There is of course all the other people in dark valley's right now, that are on the news, such as the families of Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.
It is easy for our small victory to get lost in onslaught of darkness.
And now, we, as a family, are looking to start on a new hiking trail. We have hiked in this park before (the first round of expansion surgery 2 years ago) but not on THIS trail.... and we do not have a trail map, and we can not see which way this trail goes, after the first bend in the trees. We know a bit of what the beginning of the trail will be like, as many of the trails in this park seem to start this way, it will be rocky with a short steep incline and after that you turn a corner and I don't know whether the path will lead up toward the mountain or down toward the valley. So we pray. And we ask you to pray. Pray that God will lead us toward the mountain! That there will be no complications, that recovery will be smooth and easy. But there are no guarantees. We may start heading up the mountain, only to choose the wrong fork in the path and start a rapid descent into the valley... we have seen this happen to many families in our support group. But we can not focus on the possibility of the Valley, we need to keep our eyes on the top of the Mountain and our thoughts on the possibility of an amazing view from the top.
I will write more very soon regarding the surgery and our upcoming journey and I hope you will continue to follow us on this journey and as we follow and support those around us on their journey's, whether it is in the valley or on the mountain.
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