I’m going to intro you to a couple of people that I don’t know.
But..with the world of social media, the web CAN be an amazing place to connect on the journey of the new normal.
The first is Steve Ewen.
I’ve never met him.
He’s a reporter with the Vancouver Province and he’s battling cancer. It’s a tough battle. He’s called his blog, ‘I’m sad and mad about getting cancer’. Actually no…he hasn’t. His blog is called, Crush the Tumour with Humour.
It’s some amazing stories of someone going through a very tough fight but remaining positive and using humour to negotiate the new normal he and his wife find themselves living. If I can figure it out, I’ll add it to my ‘links’ section, but here’s a quick direct link if you want to check it out. Here’s an excerpt from today:
The bad news is that the new stitches in my back has led to our surgeon, Dr. Robert Lee, limiting my arm movements for the next two weeks. The really bad news, at least for the people at G.F. Strong and the general public around King Ed and Laurel in Vancouver, is that they’ve given me a power wheelchair.
Oh. Mercy. Think of the havoc I can cause with a motor and wheels?
Keep rockin it Steve!
The second link is from Gillian Berg, the Mission mom who lost her husband and father of their four children at Christmas. Her writing is deep, spiritual and an amazing work of strength and vulnerability rolled into one. An excerpt from her latest:
Last night, as my daughter asked for help, begged for prayers that would take her fear away, the fear that something else might happen, the fear that she is still in danger, I realized again that like the work needed to heal the physical wounds, there was going to be gruelling work needed to heal the emotional ones.
We, each one of us, will have to choose to stand slowly, painfully upon the limbs of our broken dreams; to endure the attacks of relentless discouragement of working towards something new; to fight for something better, something healthier.
To Steve and Gillian I would say, we all haven’t chosen our situations. It happened. Life happens. There is no big answer to the ‘why’ question….at least not one that may be evident in this lifetime. We”ll simply stand with you on your journey of the new normal as so many have and are standing with us. This is a link to the first time the term ‘the new normal’ entered our lexicon. It’s been a fixture ever since.
Be The Best. 