Why? is an irresistible question.....the first one most of us ask when looking at something that makes absolutely no sense.
Like.....Why did my little brother and his best friend, in the second month of their senior year of high school, get into a terrible wreck?
How did the passenger take the impact of a head on collision, then get crunched from the side of a metal post they landed against, and not break a single bone?
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Why will my brother be in a wheelchair, and endure extensive and difficult therapy?
Infinite questions could be asked, but they would hang in the air unanswered. It is not for us to know the answers right now, and they may or may not be revealed in this lifetime. All we can do is drop to our knees and thank God for having mercy on all of us by letting us keep our boys.
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. For the scripture says to Pharaoh: I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be declared in all the earth." Romans 9:15-17
Rather than focus on the long and painful recovery, we must keep our minds on the blessing that they will heal.
We will applaud them and cheer them on, no matter how tempted to over help, so that they will regain the strength to be independent. The pain will be difficult to watch, but we know that through pain comes strength and endurance.
Just as God had His hand on them during the crash, He will be there as they recover and beyond.
"For I know the plans I have for you,"declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." ~ Jeremiah 29:11
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