It’s difficult to convey my emotions on reading this article. It reminds me of painful realities that are easy to forget about within the day to day bustle of life. My life will probably be shorter than yours. I have much better odds of getting heart disease and stroke, of going blind, having nerve damage, or even losing my leg than you do. It may be that I will not be able to provide for my wife and (future) family the way I’d hoped. These are hard things to understand at any age, but especially at 25 when possibilities are supposed to be opening up instead of closing down.
Monday, January 09, 2006
Daily Grace
Today’s New York Times contains this astonishing (for you), alarming (for me) article on diabetes in the United States
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We're here with you, Andy. Thank you for continuing to talk through this process with us.
Life in this skin, for all of us, is but a breath. We cannot know when our time will come, but we can know our frame. May we all remember with you the simple fact that life is given--that we are sustained by grace through every breath, through every day, through every night.
None of us can fight death. It will come. We all have the disease of entropy coursing in our blood. Yet, even in this, we can embrace the hope to which we were called, we can encourage eachother to remember the hope of our unimaginable inheritance in the coming ages. We will live in new and enduring bodies one day.
Thank you for your post, Andy, for entrusting to us a little of this your new burden. I apologize for my frivolous remarks before.
Andy, I'm glad to hear that you're trusting God and can recognize his grace. I imagine that it can't be easy. I'll try to remember to keep you in my prayers. I would never wish diabetes on anyone, but if anyone has the discipline to be diligent and do what they can to prevent side effects, it's you.
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