I Am Lucky

People call me many things, but on the surface, I am not sure how many people would call me lucky. Having three life threatening surgery's before I have turned 30, is not exactly a enviable life. I have come closer to death then most people ever will.

I am here to tell you how lucky I am though.

These struggles that my wife and I are going though suck, don't get me wrong. But I have discovered something through this experience that I may not have otherwise. The group of friends and family that my wife and I have are beyond amazing. The support of our friends and family have been so strong and so pervasive, that now matter how low we get, there is always someone to pick us up. So was the case today.

My wife and I are part of a Small Group with our Church. Every other week, a group of 10 -15 of us get together. The focus of the group varies, from leadership studies to Bible studies, but one thing is constant; the sense of community. Never has that feeling been so strong as today.

At the beginning of the group, we began with an ice breaker of high/low, in which you talk about the highest and lowest points of he last week. I have always had a difficult time with this game, usually because I cannot think of a low, and narrowing down the highs. That was not the case today. Neither my wife or I could think of a high, nd neither of use were able to get through our low without breaking down.

As we finished, muffled sniffles and tears flowing were the only sounds that could be heard. In the midst of this near silence, one member of the group spoke up and imediately went into prayer. It was surreal. The tears began to flow more freely, but at the same time, I felt comforted. I held my wife's hand as I listened to the prayer. The sense of helplessness and despair began to lift, and it was replaced by hope and love.

When the prayer was over and we looked into the tear filled eyes of the rest of our group, we knew that things would be OK.

This is why I feel lucky.