November 8, 2011
Today I thought I knew what my blog would be about – we had our three month all important check up today where we got our A1C checked and met with everyone necessary to make sure we were on track and hitting the right numbers for Allison’s blood sugar, however on my long drive home from the appointment I changed my mind.
We live in rural Maryland on the Eastern Shore so therefore we have to drive about an hour and a half from home for these appointments. It is a beautiful and wonderful place to live, but far from specialists that are necessary to sustain our lives now, so we take the trek to Baltimore when necessary for Allison’s diabetes issues.
As I headed back home down 97 South towards Annapolis my mind was overwhelmed with the almost three hours in the doctor’s office and I decided to shut off the diabetes in my mind for a just a moment. Just as I decided on my mental break I rounded a corner of 97 just before 50 in Annapolis – the sun was setting to my right and the trees to my left hovered high in the sky with all different shades of yellows, greens, oranges and reds. The colors, all in harmony, making a beautiful painting against the grey sky of the setting sun. The beauty of this moment made me realize I have been driving by the wonderfulness of this time of year. Autumn is such a beautiful season – the trees before they lose their leaves, the crisp air that moves in before the real cold of winter hits along with the shades of the sun as we move into a darker night earlier.
Then I started thinking I need to remember to stop and see the beauty more often. As I got to this point I was getting ready to cross the Severn River Bridge in Annapolis – another spot of pure beauty, at any season. The softness of the water, the beauty of the trees lining the shore and the lights of the Naval Academy. God sure makes life around you beautiful – why don’t I notice it more?
Then I came upon the Chesapeake Bay Bridge – the majesty of the steel structure looming over 4 and a half miles of the Chesapeake Bay. The moon was high in the sky and the water was glimmering with its reflection in a stillness that comes on a crisp Autumn night. Then I start to think – this wonderful Man made steel monster makes it possible for me to see the beauty of Maryland’s Western Shores and others to cross and see the beauty of the Eastern Shore. A Man made item that at one time people thought would never happen – people still found a way to cross the bay both ways but then Man figured out how to offer God’s beauty on both sides to others in a better way.
Much like our lives with diabetes – we are waiting on Man and God to meet – for them to figure it out together and find a cure. Just as they figured out how to have all of us cross great divides all across this world they will one day come together and find a cure for this disease that weighs on our family and so many others in our world.
Until then, I am going to try to have a little more patience with Man and God knowing they are working on it and I will stop and see the beauty in life that lies around the next bend in the road or across the next bridge in my life.
Until there is a cure,
Jennifer
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