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• Our Journey Through The Valley (70)

  19 February, 2014

  I initially thought that living with Motor Neurone Disease would been like living with a sword over our head, never knowing just when it would fall. Such an image, if true,  would cause great stress and tension. Not so. At least, not so at this point in our journey.

  I can't say that we have grown used to it and its presence and activity in our lives but sometimes we can find ourselves thinking that this is life as it will be from now on. Bev will be physically incapacitated, I will continue to care for her. And life goes on.

  We seem to have a lot of friends around the place who have had various sicknesses but who are anticipating recovering from their sickness, surgery or whatever. Occasionally I have found myself putting Bev into that category - as one who will recover in due course.

  Then something will happen that reminds me that not only will she not "get better" or "improve", she will get worse and die. Those reminders can ambush me at any hour of the day or night. While I appreciate the need of these reminders to keep me connected to the reality of our situation, they usually come with something of a shock factor.

  The ambush can try and steer my thoughts further down this track we are travelling and I find myself having to resist the temptation to treat them as present reality rather than future reality. The person who most helps me put these issues back into a right perspective is....Bev herself!!

  What we have both believed in our heads for years about life, death, heaven, resurrection, the Lord's Return etc. has taken root in Bev's heart faster and deeper than has been the case for me. The fact of the matter is that it takes something like MND to cause us to ask, "What do we really believe about these things?"

  I'm glad to tell you that we continue to hold firm to the great truths of Scripture that the Lord is with us as we make this journey towards and  through the Valley of the Shadow of Death