Life in Holland: A New Twist On An Old Story

Sunday, April 12, 2009

A New Twist On An Old Story

The girls with their "Pops"

There's nothing like sisterly love!!

The 2 Princesses

A treat from the Easter Bunny

The Original Princess

Happy Easter! I hope you had a great one and took some time to reflect on the fact that Jesus is risen and is truly the reason we celebrate Easter. The bunnies and chocolate are only a bonus! I just wanted to take a brief moment to fill you in a Bible story...from Carly's point of view:
Carly came home from school and was telling me how she had learned that day about how Jesus made a lame man walk and a blind man see. She explained in very intricate detail of how they cut a hole in the roof of the place where Jesus was staying and lowered the lame man down and Jesus prayed with him and healed him. I then asked her how he was able to make the blind man see and she quickly answered, "I think Jesus got him some glasses or something."

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LezliApril 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I love that story! So funny and so creative!
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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this....When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.