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Monday, April 20th, 2009 | Healing after Loss | No Comments

“Mom, Jefferson fell out the third-story window and he’s at the hospital.”
I heard those words yesterday, and my heart stopped. (I remembered that window from my visit four months ago to my daughter’s apartment back East, and pictured little two-year-old Jefferson sitting by that window while we ate breakfast together.)

From that moment on the day was one emotional roller-coaster. Unable to phone, my daughter and her husband relied on texts to let us know how Jefferson was faring.
We immediately began praying, and as each update came through on the phone, we thanked God for yet another miracle.
No broken bones.
No head trauma.
No spinal cord injury.
Internal bleeding? Still checking.
He is in pain because he almost severed his tongue; and his back hurts – they assume he landed on his lower back.

After five hours of CAT scans, blood work and other tests, and a transfer to Children’s National Hospital, it was determined the only injuries are a tear in his liver, and his painful tongue.

My sister-in-law called me, and she said, “We never know what the next day will bring. We spend so much time wishing our child would do this or that differently, or being impatient with their messes, or looking forward to when they are older or more independent or less disobedient, that sometimes we forget to just love them. And that is what is really important, and it’s what we’ll remember when things like this happen. Am I loving him the best I can? Does he know of my love?”

It’s true. We never do know what the next day – or even the next hour – will bring.
So let’s love those around us the best we can, and thank God for the miracles – large and small – that He continues to send our way.

Tags: Family, grandchildren, Love, Miracles, Optimism