Paul returned home from the hospital unexpectedly yesterday!!
When I made my planned call to him expecting that he would still be in the hospital - he excitedly told me that he had just arrived home!! After the images from his MRI came back the doctor reported to him that his most worrisome and frightening condition had cleared up and that "some things just can't be explained." That condition could have affected the rest of our lives permanently. It would have adversely affected his quality of life. After the results of the MRI came back they removed some of the tubing and his body began working on its own. The relief of this is almost unexplainable. This illness and helping Paul cope with it was weighing on me heavily. He was completely overwhelmed. In shock almost.
He sounded like a man who got his new lease on life. He was so excited I could feel it through the phone line!
We believe in miracles. We believe in the ability to bring on healing by Priesthood blessing if that outcome is the will of God. We believe in answers to prayers. This serves to strengthen our beliefs. We offer a debt of gratitude to anyone who offered a prayer on his behalf. Thank you for that selfless service. We will remember you in our prayers with gratitude and ask that you are blessed for your care and kindness. It is a view into your personal divinity.
THANK YOU!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Amazing Recovery
Why do "bad" things happen?
I feel very strongly that there are four distinct reasons why "bad" things happen. Some are natural and some are divine. Some are a little of both.
1. We make "bad" choices and have to live with the consequences. For example: A person drinks and drives and crashes their car into a telephone pole. They become paralyzed from the waist down and total the car. The accident is a consequence of your personal choice to drink and drive. There are natural laws about objects moving and meeting other objects with force etc...that this choice puts into motion and usually these natural laws cannot be broken.
2. Other people make "bad" choices and it affects our lives. For example: A person drinks and drives and crashes their car into your car. You become paralyzed from the waist down and it totals your car. The accident is a consequence of someone else's personal choice to drink and drive. There are natural laws about objects moving and meeting other objects with force etc...that this choice puts into motion and usually cannot these natural laws cannot be broken.
3. We live in a "fallen" world. A world where our bodies age, acquire illness, and die. It is a natural law. Human bodies are subject to natural laws. Our cells die and do not replace themselves. Our cells mutate and create cancer.
4. There are certain divine lessons to learn from this trial.
I don't think to act as God and determine which is which. A person may learn during their life the purpose of such things. People come to terms with things in their own reasons and in their own times. But this is something particularly important as I cope with my long term illness of bipolar. I believe my illness to be a mixture of genetics (natural law), environment during my formative years (psychological behavior), and for me to learn a small handful of divine lessons. Maybe God took the opportunity to teach me something knowing that this was part of my inevitability and part of the natural laws that would affect me. I don't believe that natural laws and divinity are separate and must be divorced from one another. I believe that God is the author of the natural laws. That they have a synergy. A human being is not just physicial and not just spiritual. What is physical is affected by the spiritual and what is spiritual is affected by the physical. That is why finding the balance is such a journey.
I am trying to remember these things as I cope with Paul's illness and its possible ramifications.
I feel very strongly that there are four distinct reasons why "bad" things happen. Some are natural and some are divine. Some are a little of both.
1. We make "bad" choices and have to live with the consequences. For example: A person drinks and drives and crashes their car into a telephone pole. They become paralyzed from the waist down and total the car. The accident is a consequence of your personal choice to drink and drive. There are natural laws about objects moving and meeting other objects with force etc...that this choice puts into motion and usually these natural laws cannot be broken.
2. Other people make "bad" choices and it affects our lives. For example: A person drinks and drives and crashes their car into your car. You become paralyzed from the waist down and it totals your car. The accident is a consequence of someone else's personal choice to drink and drive. There are natural laws about objects moving and meeting other objects with force etc...that this choice puts into motion and usually cannot these natural laws cannot be broken.
3. We live in a "fallen" world. A world where our bodies age, acquire illness, and die. It is a natural law. Human bodies are subject to natural laws. Our cells die and do not replace themselves. Our cells mutate and create cancer.
4. There are certain divine lessons to learn from this trial.
I don't think to act as God and determine which is which. A person may learn during their life the purpose of such things. People come to terms with things in their own reasons and in their own times. But this is something particularly important as I cope with my long term illness of bipolar. I believe my illness to be a mixture of genetics (natural law), environment during my formative years (psychological behavior), and for me to learn a small handful of divine lessons. Maybe God took the opportunity to teach me something knowing that this was part of my inevitability and part of the natural laws that would affect me. I don't believe that natural laws and divinity are separate and must be divorced from one another. I believe that God is the author of the natural laws. That they have a synergy. A human being is not just physicial and not just spiritual. What is physical is affected by the spiritual and what is spiritual is affected by the physical. That is why finding the balance is such a journey.
I am trying to remember these things as I cope with Paul's illness and its possible ramifications.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Ireland Postponed
Although I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year I have spent the holidays a little bummed out. My long awaited trip to Ireland has been postponed until early Spring, I fear. My fiance Paul has been getting increasingly sick until he was admitted to the hospital in Coleraine on December 26th. So many infections it is amazing he was alive. Infections in his lungs, kidneys, bladder, and prostate. The infection in his lungs and kidneys has cleared up well, but the rest is still being worked on as we speak. He is still in the hospital. There may be long term ramifications of all of this. We don't know all of it yet. He will need to get home from the hospital and start the rehabilitation process before we consider when I will actually go to Ireland. If you are so inclined, please offer some prayers for my honey. We need them in respect to his remaining illnesses.
On a positive note, the United States government approved our application for his Fiance Visa. Now he has to get well so that he can go for an interview and pick up the Visa. He will be free to come over here to get married. I don't know the time frame restrictions on the Visa, but I am certain that I will learn. As of right now we are looking at a late fall/early winter wedding.
I hope that you all had wonderful holidays and enjoyed time with your family and friends.
On a positive note, the United States government approved our application for his Fiance Visa. Now he has to get well so that he can go for an interview and pick up the Visa. He will be free to come over here to get married. I don't know the time frame restrictions on the Visa, but I am certain that I will learn. As of right now we are looking at a late fall/early winter wedding.
I hope that you all had wonderful holidays and enjoyed time with your family and friends.
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