It seems like everywhere I turn these days, the buzz word is “uncertainty.”We are uncertain of the economy, the housing market, the upcoming presidential election, the definitions of marriage and the list goes on and on and on.Admittedly, at times I am tempted to worry over everything the media is telling me could go wrong in my life.Beyond that, there are the traditional family stresses and woes that occasionally encroach upon the boundaries of what I like to consider as my usually stable mind.
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The past two weeks have been a whirlwind. After several years of trying to get pregnant and an arduous IVF cycle, my sister was finally pregnant. But last Tuesday, they couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat. As she navigates through her grief, I am trying to fill the spaces of what I know is heart wrenching pain. I am hopelessly inadequate in the face of this tragedy, yet I must somehow find a way to “be present” as she and my brother in-law attempt to reconstruct reality after their loss. Read the full story