Getting the Normal Back

It's happened to most of us, probably all of us. You're going through life, humming and strolling along, or maybe mumbling and just dragging your feet, everything the same, when all of the sudden, BAM! Seemingly out of nowhere, your life changes drastically, and not for the better. It's a shock, and you just stop where you are; life as you know it is defined by that moment in time, and it changes you forever. Personally, I have had many such moments in my life: JFK's assassination, my parents' divorce, personal trauma as a teenager, a former foster child's false accusations against my husband that precipitated court-martial proceedings, our child's cancer diagnosis, the events of 9/11/2001, the betrayal of family and subsequent estrangement, the death of our parents. When I look back at these events, I see a clear demarkation line of life before and life after, and there was no going back. 

Right now my daughter and her family are facing such a turning point in their lives, a turn of events that arose out of nowhere, a sucker punch nearly knocking the air out of them. Their lives completely disrupted, nothing seems certain any longer. Where they’ll be tomorrow, next week, next month, is anybody’s guess, our much anticipated visit next month has lost its joy. Molly said it best: “ever since  the talk about the visa, it’s hard to get the normal back.”

Praying for them. Yes we know the God of the universe controls every molecule, every spin of the planet, every second of our lives, and that nothing, and I mean nothing, surprises him. They also know this, and are not under any sense of delusion they can control the outcome. But God created us with emotions, and as humans we still have attachments to things on this earth, and we want to understand WHY. Praying for comfort and peace and understanding from the God of comfort, peace, and understanding.

Oh, and right after this happened, my other daughter's dog died very suddenly and unexpectedly...not the same, perhaps, but still, a HUGE disruption.