Comments on: My Protective Cloak http://widow-speak.org/blog/2009/06/13/my-protective-cloak/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:07:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Michele Neff Hernandez http://widow-speak.org/blog/2009/06/13/my-protective-cloak/#comment-16233 Michele Neff Hernandez Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:06:22 +0000 http://widow-speak.org/blog/2009/06/13/my-protective-cloak/#comment-16233 Thank you for sharing your story Judy. And I am inspired by your ability to hold onto your family dream, inspite of long odds and unforseen challenges. I am certain your husband is proud. Mnay blessings to you on the rest of your life path. Michele Thank you for sharing your story Judy. And I am inspired by your ability to hold onto your family dream, inspite of long odds and unforseen challenges. I am certain your husband is proud. Mnay blessings to you on the rest of your life path.

Michele

]]> By: Judy http://widow-speak.org/blog/2009/06/13/my-protective-cloak/#comment-16232 Judy Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:41:04 +0000 http://widow-speak.org/blog/2009/06/13/my-protective-cloak/#comment-16232 Michele, Your writing poignantly reminded me that the 11th anniversary of my husband's death is approaching. My son was 13 years old when his father died after surgery for arterial blockage, and he could not understand why the prayer which the surgeons said had miraculously helped pull his father through heart surgery 6 years previously did not "work" this time. He still does not understand that. I was suddenly the sole wage earner. There was a little from Social Security for my son, a small burial policy (his medical condition disqualified him from life insurance). There was the mortgage, the car payment--we had just moved, the house had problems. I was determined that with God's help I would make sure that I fulfilled Ed's and my dream to send our son to college. I had to endure much, much more during those 11 years than I could ever have foreseen. There was not only the grief, but almost unimaginable obstacles. Yet I learned that our "invisible cloak," as you so eloquently describe it Michele, of faith and love and dreams through God's grace would endure. Two years ago my son graduated from New York University. It took literally everything I had, and everything he had, to accomplish that. Today as I look at a picture of our little family, I know that we fulfilled a family dream, and that we can continue to fulfill them. Michele,

Your writing poignantly reminded me that the 11th anniversary of my husband’s death is approaching. My son was 13 years old when his father died after surgery for arterial blockage, and he could not understand why the prayer which the surgeons said had miraculously helped pull his father through heart surgery 6 years previously did not “work” this time. He still does not understand that.

I was suddenly the sole wage earner. There was a little from Social Security for my son, a small burial policy (his medical condition disqualified him from life insurance). There was the mortgage, the car payment–we had just moved, the house had problems. I was determined that with God’s help I would make sure that I fulfilled Ed’s and my dream to send our son to college.

I had to endure much, much more during those 11 years than I could ever have foreseen. There was not only the grief, but almost unimaginable obstacles. Yet I learned that our “invisible cloak,” as you so eloquently describe it Michele, of faith and love and dreams through God’s grace would endure. Two years ago my son graduated from New York University. It took literally everything I had, and everything he had, to accomplish that. Today as I look at a picture of our little family, I know that we fulfilled a family dream, and that we can continue to fulfill them.

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