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Distressed yet soaring…
I run, I race. My friends and I call this the "Christmas tree effect". There are so many ‘ornaments’ hanging on us every day that we don't even know which one and how to balance. With Vince we are preparing for the final exams, creating thousands of adaptive...
Hidden gifts…
It's dawn. I turn Vince from one side to the other. My consciousness is still somewhat asleep, but an inner voice says, come close, just cuddle here with me. I get into bed, pull the blanket over myself and fold my hands in prayer. I'm here. Thank you for letting me...
Two Are Gathered…
The door opens. I rush to the hospital bed. I look at Vince’s face. It’s pale a little. I see beads of sweat across his forehead. I sing. His eyelids are puffed up because of the anesthesia. We are in the intensive recovery room after his spine surgery. The...
He covers me with His wings
There are so many ways to live. Everyone really only sees their own lives. Mine is complex, because it’s bustling and lonely at the same time. It’s bustling, because Vince’s disability places a thousand helpers and creates situations of grace in our world. Lonely,...
A Dream Come True…
Limitation, fear, rushing into the unknown that’s coming next… I could go on with the thoughts that have come up in everyone’s mind in the past months because of the Coronavirus. For those people who deal with some sort of health problem, the quarantine didn’t start...
Recipes
Winter routine after the removal of the tracheostomy tube – recipe Ingredients: • An inhaler that vaporizes Salvus water into the size of 2.2 micrometer • Cough machine, which can be operated with sigh and vibration function • Cordless suction machine • Vitamins,...
Freedom
I’m folding clothes. Tears flood my eyes. I look out the window. A sharp beam of sunlight breaks through the leaves of a dense thuja tree. I close my eyes and a rest for a second. I enjoy the sunshine warming my face a little. I give thanks to God for this moment. I...
New Life
“If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you...
Your miracles, Your plans…
“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ’plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with...
God has loved me out of this world…
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life— comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and...