Time. It moves to a steady rhythm all it’s own. There is no slowing it, no speeding it up. It ebbs and flows like a river, twisting and winding through the terrain of our life.

Five years ago today our lives took a dramatic turn. One we would’ve never seen coming and one we never would have chosen for ourselves. It was a single moment in our lifetime that  completely changed the terrain. (Read all about it  Here – Chapter 1 of our book ).

Had you asked us back then if we could handle it, if we’d make it. I’d probably give you a deer-in-headlights look. This journey has been beyond difficult. Countless tears, countless wrestling matches with God, countless fear-filled moments. But today, as I look back over the past five years….

It’s been a beautiful melody of glory.

There is the obvious – yes – that Hannah is still with us, that she is vivacious and thriving on her own accord. That she is far surpassing what the doctors ever imagined she could do, like, riding horses and attending school.

But there’s the not-so-obvious glory story. God has revealed the depth of His love for us in more ways than I can count or even verbalize. He has sustained us with His presence and poured out provision when we’d all but given up. He’s taken us to a deeper walk with Him, one that is alive with faith, to which I wouldn’t trade for anything. And if words could express what this journey has done to draw us as a family closer together… well then… I’d write them.

There is just not a sufficient phrase.

Only the light of her eyes, and the expressions of worship can ever come close.