Losing and Finding
I wrote in my paper journal this week that I want to start writing for my blog more regularly. Since Lacy's death, my posts have been sporadic. I began this online journal to chronicle our family's journey as we dealt with the impact of our son's challenges. When Lacy died, it seemed that much of my reason to write died with him. Another blog that I began following shortly after Lacy was diagnosed with HD had the same sort of purpose: to document the impact on a family when a seemingly healthy baby presents with a deadly inherited disease. After the death of her son, the author of this blog stopped writing. What was there to write about? The disease had taken her son. Lacy died on May 28, 2016. On August 14, 2016, I began a paper journal of my walk though the "valley of the shadow of death." Each morning, I read that day's devotional entry in "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. I wrote about how I was feeling that day. Son