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Home > Michelle's Blog > Previous Postings > 11/19/2007
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November 19, 2007:
Path to Death and Life - Is it the Same?A year ago, my brother Bob and his wife Jen asked me if I wanted to be in the delivery room when they had their second child. Coming from such a large family and being the only sibling to not have experience in childbirth, I said YES! I have always wanted to see this miracle of life. So last week, while I was driving to Indiana, the call came. With screeching brakes, I whipped a donut on Interstate 90 and headed back to the Twin Cities.
The entire thing was beyond amazing - so foreign to anything else I had ever witnessed, yet so familiar to something I had just experienced 2 years ago.
Beginning with the breaking of the water and then watching my sister-in-law begin to have contractions, created the same feeling in me as watching my mother battle cancer. The same pain, the same sounds, the same strength to endure. Both very strong women having something happen to their bodies out of their control. I wanted to take the pain away from both of them, even if only for a minute.
But then I remembered the outcome. With one, the end was death and with the other, the end was life. With both endings being so very different and both paths being so similar, it placed me in a state of awe to realize how unbelievable life really is. How precious the time here becomes. To see a child brought into the world from their safe, warm home they have been living in for 9 months was as amazing as watching a woman smile as she is letting her life go, free from all pain and going to a place equally as safe and warm.
As we, in the world today, remember both the miracle of our life and the wonder of death, take a moment and kiss your kids. Tell your parents, your siblings and your partner how much you love them. Treat your employees and co-workers with the respect and love that you want to feel in your job. We only have a short time here, so make it worth your life. It’s a very special life – don’t waste it!
I’d like to welcome Joshua Robert Blomberg to this world on November 6, 2007. Another miracle of life! I hope his 3 year old brother doesn’t show him ALL the “ways of the world”. HA!
If you have a similar story, I’d sure like to hear it!! Happy Thanksgiving!
Keep smiling!
Michelle