Not How We Pictured It

2011 brought change to our lives that we could not have imagined. One that we still wish was only a horrible nightmare; how we would love to be shaken awake to hear someone say "It's okay, it was just a bad dream and everything is just fine". Instead, our heavy hearts cannot feel relief from the pain. My mind repeats "His burden is light" and "He will not give us more than we can carry" but my everything else feels weighed down with the reality of it. Eight weeks to graduate and our daughter checked out....of our lives, of her high school, of reality and of anything & everything that our family has known for her almost 19 years of life. Still in shock, we don't understand what happened. We are not the first nor the last to feel this agony over a child gone astray. Since the time our Lord shared the story of the prodical son parents have experienced these life-changing events.
However, in the midst of pain & turmoil God placed a precious soul to give us joy...Mason Cole, this smiling, laughing, adorable baby boy. This grandson gift is keeping us from 'losing it' because our sanity is being preserved by this little bundle of love who needs or actually demands our undivided attention. We are all smitten by his charming ways! God is good all the time, all the time God is good.