Crossing paths

It is so humbling to feel the guidance and love of our Heavenly Father as Brent and I go through one of the most difficult trials of our lives. He is pouring down blessings and truly making our burdens light. I can testify of the truthfulness of this scripture found in Matthew

                Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

                Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall                     find rest unto your souls.

    For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

The blessings are unending. When I take the time to think about our life up to this point, I am  so overwhelmed with gratitude for how our lives have been prepared to undergo this trial. I am deeply aware of how mindful our Father in Heaven has been and continues to be of Brent and me and our little boy.  But this realization really requires its own blog post (or two, or three). I think I will get to that later.

What I really wanted to talk about was what happened over the weekend. We had the opportunity to meet with an LDS family whose little boy has HLHS. Their little boy will be turning 1 soon. We are so grateful to have been able to meet with them and we were completely blown away by their kindness. They welcomed us into their home with open arms and answered any and all questions we had. They told us their story, what their little son had gone through, and how he was recovering now. It gave us renewed strength and hope. Their little baby is so inspiring…to think about what he has gone through and to see his smile brighten up the entire room was very humbling. During our time with them, we felt the spirit so strongly. We felt our Heavenly Father’s love through them. We felt at peace. This family helped us in more ways than we can describe. We are so grateful for their new friendship.

Brent and I know that meeting this family and having their support is so much more than just a coincidence. Our doctor put us in contact with one another…we have only met with our cardiologist once and I really don’t know how he would have known we are LDS. But he still knew to ask this particular family to reach out to us and they did. This defect is so rare that I don’t even know how many families in the area there are who have even gone through something like this…but here we are, meeting with a family that shares our values, and understands our struggle. How amazing is that? We are grateful beyond words to Heavenly Father for putting this family in our path.

Since finding out about Aiden’s diagnosis, the blessings have been pouring in. I know that our Heavenly Father has not forgotten about us, but is indeed mindful of what we are going through. He will never forget us. This weekend was a true testament of this fact.