Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Dreams, dreams everywhere, but not a drop to drink

I am coming to accept the fact that my dreams for my son will never be fulfilled. What I'm trying to hold on to is that where he is right now, he understands love more fully than I do. He understands how much I loved him on earth, and how much I love him right now. When he was here, his limited human perception gave him his childlike viewpoint on love, but now his perception is expanded. I pray that he understands now that even when I gave him "timeouts", or when I yelled at him to not bite his sister, that I still loved him with the fullest expanse of my heart.

The more difficult, in a different way, situation to deal with are my dreams for Ani. I haven't found an answer for how you rationalize the "pray for the best and plan for the worst" when it comes to dreaming dreams. Or how it comes to accepting Ani as she is right now. I pray that Ani will be healed to some extent, and I believe this to be true, but I don't know the extent. I'm struggling with how to remember Ani as she was without letting that affect my life with how she _is_. At least before the injury, I fairly well understood how life would progress for Ani. I need dreams and plans to look forward to, to work towards. I won't accept that Ani & I need to just cruise through life. I find that I need to craft dreams that are at once achievable, and others that are couched in the viewpoint of "not impossible". I need to be OK with dreams that are "not impossible", even if they may be "improbable".

2 comments:

Marcella, James & Grace said...

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for sharing. I miss the conversations we had in the hospital, and this is a good second best - I know that it must be quite a balancing act to juggle hopes and dreams with the current situation, but I know that Ani is making good progress, and while baby steps aren't quite the dreams you used to have, they are still pretty amazing to see.

Unknown said...

Hi Jerry,

This is Nhi. I have a quote for you "Because someone we love is in Heaven, there's a little bit of Heaven in our home"
I'm sure that Nathaniel knew and always knows that you love him very much. I believe he's still around you as you and your family still love and think of him.
I wish Ani the best and keep on recovering.