My son is married to a wonderful woman. Her mom just found out that she has terminal brain cancer at age 62. She is the mother of four wonderful grown children who are each married. Her youngest son’s wife just lost her dad in a house fire a month ago. She was pregnant and lost her baby the day after the fire.
I cannot begin to understand the grieving of this young lady. Her dad was only 52 years old when he died and he was a very godly pastor. To then lose your first child on top of that would seem overwhelming.
My son’s mother in law will be going to the Mayo Clinic, two hours from their home in Minnesota, for treatment 5 days per month. She will need to be driven there and then cared for at home after the treatment. Her daughter in law who just lost her dad and her baby volunteered to stay with her at their house to do this. Her husband will come there on weekends from their home that is 3 hours away to stay there also.
How does a woman who in the last 30 days has just lost her dad and her baby do something like this? I don’t know but I am in awe. I am in awe of her and in awe of what God has done in her and her husband.
Life’s greatest difficulties surrounding death are impossible to understand or to explain but when love breaks through this seemingly impenetrable darkness something amazing and beautiful happens. Her act of sacrifice and love for her mother in law in the presence of her own pain is inspiring to me. I have grown through this tragedy.
I do not know if God will perform a miracle here and heal Paula of the cancer. But if ever there was an environment of sacrificial love that could produce one, this is it.