This is my first post on my own. You can probably tell that most of the entries are all Lisa (Maybe after reading this you will "hope" I don't write any more). I usually give her a few lines or proof read it for her. I am writing this I think more for my own good than anyone else. At this point if you have not read Lisa's last entry please stop and read it, or this won't make much sense.
We have had a lot of hope for the past 6-8 weeks. That hope was recently crushed. Over the past week we have said that our hearts were broken. This reminded me of a song by the Judybats. "Hearts cannot be broken, they're small squishy things. They don't break like glass but they bruise easily. This one you bruise." (Being Simple 1993) Our hearts have definitely been bruised.
In my line of work I have learned that an injured heart can lead to many serious consequences. You can develop ischemia, fibrillation, ventricular remodeling, 0r ventricular hypertrophy to name a few. These could lead to cardiac arrest or heart failure. Our hearts are bruised but they have not failed. You can use medications to treat, or hopefully prevent heart failure. In our lives we have tools to heal our hearts. The most important is PRAYER. With prayer, support from those who love us, scripture study, and regular temple attendance we hope to avoid heart failure and mend our "squishy" bruised hearts.
Our hope may be gone for the moment, but Alma's words are comforting "But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words." (Alma 32:27) I desire to believe that we will one day be parents.
Thank you to all our family and friends for your support and prayers. Thank you Mary, Dr. Quinto and everyone at the office for all your generosity and understanding. Thank you Lilly for the 8 weeks of hope. I haven't been that happy in a long time. Finally Ciao Bella. Tanti auguri. Mi manchi.
2 comments:
Rich and Lisa~I am so sorry this happened. When I spoke with you Rich about Ian, I did not know what had taken place with Lilly. Our hearts go out to you and understandably you are heartbroken. Doug and I want you to know that you are both continually in our prayers and we know that one day you will be parents. You will be fabulous parents~that's why we chose you guys to watch after Mar & Ian if anything ever happened to us. Please know your not alone~and that as hard as this is for you both our Father in Heaven has a plan for you. We pray that you will continue to feel our loving Saviour's arms around you. We love you guys.
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