and he's more than a year old. Weird.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
health
There are just so many things you don't appreciate until you don't have them. Our son fell ill over this past week, and it was scary. He ended up in the ER then in the hospital for two days.
It's so easy to go on in life without spending a moment thinking about the things we have, and because of that, it's easy to fail to think of things others never had in the first place, things like health.
I can't imagine losing a child to something as simple as a common cold virus. How horrible would that be?
At the same time, I find myself wondering what it would be like if we were truly a global community. What if the people in 3rd world countries, who still have children that die from the common cold, lived next door to us? I wonder if it would be as easy to ignore them then as it is to ignore them now.
I thank God that my son is recovering. I thank God for the doctors, and I wonder what it must be like to be born in a place where you don't have such resources. I wonder how I really spend the coins that God has entrusted me with. I wonder if I am selfish eve in my thanks.
Regardless ... I am thankful.
It's so easy to go on in life without spending a moment thinking about the things we have, and because of that, it's easy to fail to think of things others never had in the first place, things like health.
I can't imagine losing a child to something as simple as a common cold virus. How horrible would that be?
At the same time, I find myself wondering what it would be like if we were truly a global community. What if the people in 3rd world countries, who still have children that die from the common cold, lived next door to us? I wonder if it would be as easy to ignore them then as it is to ignore them now.
I thank God that my son is recovering. I thank God for the doctors, and I wonder what it must be like to be born in a place where you don't have such resources. I wonder how I really spend the coins that God has entrusted me with. I wonder if I am selfish eve in my thanks.
Regardless ... I am thankful.
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