2007…how do you explain a year like Sharee experienced? When you’re a Dad, you’re supposed to fix life’s “boo-boos” and at the same time explain the profound mysteries of life (after all I have a degree in theology!) Like why do “bad” things happen to really good people. In Sharee’s journey I could neither fix nor explain.
Believe me there were countless, long, sleepless nights…in prayer….so many tears…waiting and waiting….for God to speak…audibly, miraculously, supernaturally…anyway He would choose. Most of the time the silence was deafening.
To see you daughter, your little girl, go through such physical, emotional, mental and spiritual pain is beyond words. Reading Sharee’s blog has rekindled so much of the helplessness and at times outright desperation I (we) experienced. You’ve read the story…but unless you’ve been there you really can’t understand.
So what is a Dad supposed to do? For starters, hug you children…yes even your adult children (I still need to get better at hugging). And pray, even when it seems heaven is silent. And lean hard on the only hope any person can really have….God! A God who is good, a God who is in control. I remember years ago hearing a wise man declare some of the most profound truth I’ve ever heard, “God is God and you’re not!” Another mentor once said, “until you realize God is all you’ve got, only then do you realize God is all you need.”
Hope! That is what I clung too…a hope that God, somehow, sometime, would display His healing touch…and He has done that for Sharee. Honestly, the old Sharee isn’t back, but a whole new Sharee is back…as a transformed person, woman, wife and mother!
Sharee, I love you with all my heart! Keep climbing…the best is yet to come!
Love,
Dad
Job 1:21-22
My dad and Sydney last summer. Our first "normal" summer.
That was a great post by your dad. That's awesome.
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