"If Grace is an ocean, then we're all Sinking." - K.Walker
It is unfathomable, we are incapable, of grasping how God works together all things. Our stories are complicated, yet if you follow closely, they are intricately woven together in the most coherent manner. Today particularly, I am feeling the "lightness" that follows a time of darkness. Joy is a constant, happiness is circumstantial, today my soul is embracing both!
The idea of Private Duty Nursing was a bitter pill to swallow for many reasons. That was before. Our nursing experience has been indescribable. Their compassion, skill, ability to be unobtrusive, has been a tremendous blessing to our family.
One angel, super-nurse-Maria, has been dropped into our lives for such a time as this, for sure. We work in tandem, so effortlessly, as if we've always been together. She is a beautiful example to me and my babies of working, in any capacity, with wholehearted devotion. No matter the task, Maria sets about as if it was her greatest honor. She has taken to doing laundry during the Friday over-night shift. This started as Eamon's loads, increased to include M&Ms', tacking on towel and sheets, culminating in today's blitz - it is all done! Folded to retail-store-standards, and poured over with tremendous humility. Maria believes this is her privilege. To Maria, folding laundry carries equal importance to changing a trach, listening to my baby's heartbeat, or administering meds. See, utter devotion, a tangible portrait of what it means to serve one another.
Imagine my absolute delight last Saturday morning after my house "fairy" worked feverishly through the night while I slept peacefully. I mean really!
Today's sweet surprise!
Oh, and SNM (Super-Nurse-Maria) makes rainbow jello treats for Maeve and her party-goers.
I am overwhelmed that God would allow my family to Sink in this kind of Grace! It is further evidence that to put my whole trust in an unseen, incomprehensible, all-consuming God is the most logical thing I do! I am free-falling, completely leaning into Him, blindly being led, and sure enough, He has "turned the darkness before me into light, and the rough places into level ground." (Is 42:16) These are the things that He does!
Himself, kicking. Yes, using muscles that were flaccid, recognizing cause and effect, and sinking in Grace!
