Change Is a Roller-coaster

The last six weeks have been a roller-coaster ride of change.  Some has been good and expected.

 My youngest child is now all grown up, he has gained his drivers licence and bought a car with money he saved over three or four years.

The biggest change came four days before my son got his drivers licence and the change was unexpected.  I received news that my 84 year old mother had suffer a stroke.  The medical term used to describe the severity or her stroke was "significant".  After a week or two we deciphered this word "significant" to mean "major and lucky to survive".  The stroke has left most of my mother's right side paralysed.

The unexpected and most likely unwanted change for my mother has been moving to a bed in a nursing home.  The hospital has done all they can for her, the doctors have advised us that any further improvements will be minor.  She will not go back to her unit in the retirement village, her mind is still muddled and would not be able to turn a TV on let alone get out of bed by herself.

 Even harder to accept is that her speech has been affected too, and we find communicating with her difficult.  So her children don't know if she understands exactly what is happening in her life.


Jumbled in all of this change for myself, my brothers and my mother......

......... the rooster that was attacked by a dog has is tail feathers back.

And when you have a rooster or two walking around with the hens......one of the hens disappears for a while and then one night the hen comes back with extra's.

So, this month has taught me that not all change is bad, and some change is an achievement in one's life journey.  The answer to the question as to 'Why do bad things happen?'  Has to be left to the future.  All I do know is that when things get really terrible in the present, that is when you pass the parcel to the Lord and ask him to take some of the load.  

As yet I don't have answers to any of my questions, but that in itself is not enough to say there isn't an answer.  Sometimes I have to look back to realise that there was an answer, I just didn't see it at the time and then the answer might be as simple as learning to trust my Lord in both good and bad experiences.