It is so good to be home! Everything is just better when you are home. Our sweet neighbors decorated our porch to welcome us. Our traveling went very smoothly, had a long layover in Detroit, but Mary Graham really did well (valium probably helped :), except for about the last 20 minutes of our last flight into Birmingham and i'm not surprised because of the lady in front of us was throwing up (very loudly) the entire desent...thought I was going to die, although it's pretty funny now. Loftin and Lucy and my parents met us at the airport and it was so great to see them all, and the realization of all we had been through alone, without family and friends near us, hit me hard. But, thank goodness for texting, email, and internet....your messages made us feel like we weren't so far away. And we were truly forced to depend on God completely, for He had so much to teach us about trust and still is.
Mary Graham is doing pretty well, she is up and down and really wants me holding her much of the time-she cries when she's put down. Kind of like having a newborn again :) I believe all that she went through was very traumatizing and will take time for her to heal, both physically and mentally. Although, I know many have said that she will not remember any of this, she still knows. She is and was very aware of it all. God can heal those wounds too though. She has smiled a little more, given us a few laughs and I know she will only continue to improve. Her incisions are looking better, and part of her back blistered up (which is normal they said) and it is starting to heal also. Thank you for continuing to pray for her healing.
Also, when we left Birmingham, it was Winter and now it's Spring and everything has bloomed-it was beautiful driving to our house from the airport and reminded me of the song, "Every Season" by Nicole Nordeman and she compares winter to the harder seasons in our life, how God is in every season, teaching us, growing us until we are ready for the next season. And there will always be a new season.
And then the end of the song....
And what was frozen through is newly purposed, turning all things green, And so it is with You and how you make me new with every season's change, And so it will be as you are recreating me...summer, autumn, winter, spring.
The harder seasons make the new ones much more beautiful.
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