This picture was taken on June 20,2009... John had double vision and his dad suggested putting a patch over one eye in order to see enough to mow. Overnight we decided that he was getting worse by the day and after going to eye doctors all week... we needed to see what was going on behind his eye! So on Father's day Sunday - June 21st we heard the fateful words..."There is something abnormal in his brain." When we called his sister, Susan in France... she reminded us that as in the Gospel for the day - Jesus calming the storm - that this was the "storm" and we needed to trust in Him...no matter how terrified we were.. it set the stage for us to Trust! The following day as we sat in John's room in Sioux Falls... we laughed out loud as we read the readings for the mass of Monday... it is so interesting that it is the same today! It is Matthew 7:1-5 and is the reading of the "beam' in your eye. It was so crazy to us as John had had an eye injury about 9 years ago where he was running with a friend and got a stick in his eye. So when this all started to happen to him... the first thing that we thought was that it was his injury getting worse...hence the two eye appointments before we actually did the CT scan of his brain... But looking deeper into this reading... going through brain cancer with our son has truly been a lesson to us... we can see that we needed to take a good look at our own weaknesses and to turn to him for healing. "Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye."
St Peregrine's vision of Jesus reaching down from the cross to heal him...gave us much hope and we so are aware that in this Cross called cancer/healing we are healed! We are forever changed by the "wooden beam" upon which we were crucified - the near death experience of our 20 year old son!
Our family came together in a real and powerful way and although now Hallel is going back to France - her leaving is allowing all of us to take a trip to see her and to share in her life for a few days each... we are to be seperated by an ocean, but we continue to be together in spirit... Hallel reminds us that we are united in the Eucharist each time we attend... we are united in the deepest of bonds! It is also true of the Word of God - the Gospel as it is shared everywhere in the Catholic Church in the readings for that day! Since Susan/Hallel... I read the Gospel starting the night before and many times during the day... and hope and pray to take Christ in His Word forth with me each day! Off to the nursing Home today - Christ help me to see you in all those that I meet and serve. Jesus I trust in you! Bless-bless, Barb
This picture was taken on June 20,2009... John had double vision and his dad suggested putting a patch over one eye in order to see enough to mow. Overnight we decided that he was getting worse by the day and after going to eye doctors all week... we needed to see what was going on behind his eye! So on Father's day Sunday - June 21st we heard the fateful words..."There is something abnormal in his brain." When we called his sister, Susan in France... she reminded us that as in the Gospel for the day - Jesus calming the storm - that this was the "storm" and we needed to trust in Him...no matter how terrified we were.. it set the stage for us to Trust! The following day as we sat in John's room in Sioux Falls... we laughed out loud as we read the readings for the mass of Monday... it is so interesting that it is the same today! It is Matthew 7:1-5 and is the reading of the "beam' in your eye. It was so crazy to us as John had had an eye injury about 9 years ago where he was running with a friend and got a stick in his eye. So when this all started to happen to him... the first thing that we thought was that it was his injury getting worse...hence the two eye appointments before we actually did the CT scan of his brain... But looking deeper into this reading... going through brain cancer with our son has truly been a lesson to us... we can see that we needed to take a good look at our own weaknesses and to turn to him for healing. "Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye."
St Peregrine's vision of Jesus reaching down from the cross to heal him...gave us much hope and we so are aware that in this Cross called cancer/healing we are healed! We are forever changed by the "wooden beam" upon which we were crucified - the near death experience of our 20 year old son!
Our family came together in a real and powerful way and although now Hallel is going back to France - her leaving is allowing all of us to take a trip to see her and to share in her life for a few days each... we are to be seperated by an ocean, but we continue to be together in spirit... Hallel reminds us that we are united in the Eucharist each time we attend... we are united in the deepest of bonds! It is also true of the Word of God - the Gospel as it is shared everywhere in the Catholic Church in the readings for that day! Since Susan/Hallel... I read the Gospel starting the night before and many times during the day... and hope and pray to take Christ in His Word forth with me each day! Off to the nursing Home today - Christ help me to see you in all those that I meet and serve. Jesus I trust in you! Bless-bless, Barb
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