This week "Sound of Music" played on TV. Jeff would have loved it! The following is an excerpt from
Journey With Jeff; Inspiration for Caregivers of People with Special Needs, titled, "Following My Vision," with a quote from Habakkuk 2:2,3 -- "Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets... For still the vision awaits its time...If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay."
~~~ The overture to
The Sound of Music from the TV filled our living room. Jeff and Jennifer had settled down to watch the movie following a full day with company after church. Despite the seizure Jeff had had at midnight last night it had been a good day! We were keeping watch to see how these attacks might be afftecting his whole body's system. He seemed to recover more quickly than his dad and I! ~~ All was done in the kitchen, and I joined them in the living room just as the sisters began their "Hallelujahs" in the abbey. Even Jen sang along. ~~ When it was time for the Mother Superior to tell a bewildered Maria, "You have to live the life you were born to live," I could taste the tears the next song would bring. The words struck a chord in my heart as she sang:
A dream that will need all the love you can give, every day of your life for as long as you live! ~~ My dream was that Jeff would be as normal as possible - a whole personality through whom God's love would shine! That dream would need a refreshing and revitalizing every day of my life! ~~~ Lord God, I give everything up to You. You are in charge! Bring good out of these seizures, Lord, as only You can! Thank You! Amen."
~~~ The overture to The Sound of Music from the TV filled our living room. Jeff and Jennifer had settled down to watch the movie following a full day with company after church. Despite the seizure Jeff had had at midnight last night it had been a good day! We were keeping watch to see how these attacks might be afftecting his whole body's system. He seemed to recover more quickly than his dad and I! ~~ All was done in the kitchen, and I joined them in the living room just as the sisters began their "Hallelujahs" in the abbey. Even Jen sang along. ~~ When it was time for the Mother Superior to tell a bewildered Maria, "You have to live the life you were born to live," I could taste the tears the next song would bring. The words struck a chord in my heart as she sang: A dream that will need all the love you can give, every day of your life for as long as you live! ~~ My dream was that Jeff would be as normal as possible - a whole personality through whom God's love would shine! That dream would need a refreshing and revitalizing every day of my life! ~~~ Lord God, I give everything up to You. You are in charge! Bring good out of these seizures, Lord, as only You can! Thank You! Amen."
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