Your post meant a great deal to me and I sincerely thank you for sharing your burdens and joys with us. God is truly wonderful and gracious and each one of us has a special purpose that our Heavenly Father has designed precisely for us, in our time and space. I rejoice with you in how he provides for our deepest longings and needs. I will pray for you and your family to grow even closer to the Lord and each other.
They aren't burdens but rather life. Both me and my wife would rather be where we are with Christ than where we would be without Him even if it meant perfect health. The good news is Christ is there with us through life's adversities.
One woman goes into this a lot deeper than I ever could ever hope too about whys and how comes. Her ministry reaches millions most Preachers and Priest despite all good intentions likely can not. Her name is Joni Ericson Tada. Placed in a wheelchair at age 16 from a swimming accident. She is a great example of GOD's Grace and Power working in a persons adversity.
If these things didn't happen who would we be? Where would we be spiritually? Right now yet another affliction has hit her and she is in another fight for her health she has cancer. Joni's Posts Her ministry focuses on the disabled but everyone can learn from reading the books written on her plight.
My wife and I got to meet her once and she is a real amazing spirit filled woman. My families plight is nothing compared to hers. She's in a lot worse shape than my wife because Joni is a higher level quad. Yet Joni has been blessed by God in many ways including a Spirit filled husband she met years after her accident. Who can say that by the fruits shown of her faith and to whom she gives the Glory she is not a Christian? No one who understands The Bible could say it of her and be correct. If GOD were not with her where would she be today?
For those who don't understand many quadriplegics do not live past 5 years of onset or rather didn't when it happened to her as this was in the 1960's. Twenty years is rare. I think she is 62 now. That is 45 years in a wheelchair. Another amazing thing is quads because they usually loose stomach muscle and diaphram can't sing as it requires use of both. Oh but that woman can indeed sing. So could my wife after it hit her.