It
has been 19 months since Miriam's catastrophic stroke event.
Updating her blog site is becoming very difficult since she
continues to make very little progress and still no functional recovery. Please also pray that the nurses and CNAs will be
very careful in their daily care of Miriam. She is unable to speak or
request for help. I am her only advocate and I cannot be with her 24 x
7.
Our family
continues to wait for God's healing and waiting is painfully hard. It
would be less then truthful if I didn't say that I continue to struggle
emotionally, physically and spiritually. Free falling in a bottomless
pit has not stopped. I have been told that this free falling will never
stop. It just slows down. It continues to be an
emotional roller coaster ride. I frequently feel so numbed and
paralyzed.
Thanks to mom
and Doris, I am here in Annapolis, MD for the USNA Parent's Weekend
event. What a joy to see Howie and Warren and be together again as a
family. Miriam would be so proud to see Howie with his navy white
uniform. Howie looks so handsome. Is it obvious that I am a very proud
dad? I am most of all touched by his continued spiritual growth. He
knows that this is where God wants him to be and he loves it here. The
US Naval Academy is now his "second home" for the next four years. I
took many pictures so mom Miriam can see what has transpired over this
USNA Parents Weekend event. As Howie puts it, we are deeply grateful to
God for being our family's GPS. We would be lost without Him.
We do have
mixed emotions because Miriam is not here to attend this wonderful
occasion. We always enjoyed being together as a family. This new norm
is very difficult to overcome. It is only by God's grace that we are able to
survive as a family.
Everyone, thank you so much for your love and prayers. Please do not give up praying for Miriam and our family.
In His Time,
Dad/Alex
Psalm
18:1-2 "I love You, O Lord, my strength." The Lord is my rock and my
fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My
shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Isaiah 43:1-3. "
.....Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name;
you are Mine! When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And
through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through
the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you. For I
am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior..."
I claimed these promises for Miriam and I on February 12, 1982 as we
go through troubled waters in life.
