I just finished reading Donna's story. She is a beautiful little girl, just a few months older than my Little Guy who fought a courageous fight with pediatric cancer. In the second to last installment, Choosing Hope, Donna's mom tells of sending a prayer every day to the Rebbe's grave: "May she live until she dies." This morning I realized that a similar line was in the song "The Fighter." I have found that song so inspirational and am working on a slide show of Little Guy's story to go along with the song. I pray that I can teach that to my kids and help them to live a life of hope; to live until they die.
The phrase "treasure in earthen vessels" is coming to mind. We have bodies that can be so frail and succumb to cancer or fibrous dysplasia, but life is such a treasure. Little Guy shows that every day rushing head first into enjoying everything. It is frequently said by anyone that works with Little Guy that he has one speed: Fast! It is so hard at time to see him struggle with something and have to stop. The ironic thing is that other's don't see this side. They don't realize when he has found a way to play sitting down it is because of the fatigue. Like at his last Den meeting, he became the weapons vendor sitting in the garage and the other boys kept coming to him for more. Yesterday we snuck away to McDonald's after his Bible class. He played in the play structure, but it was short lived and soon was ready to go home. Despite what he is feeling, Little Guy is finding a way to live life and have fun and that is what others are seeing in him.
2 Corinthians 4:7-9, 17
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
