Jenn is pregnant with their sixth child but in the middle of the waiting, the doctors discovered several cysts in her lungs. The potentially life-threatening condition was, thankfully, diagnosed in time. On her blog, Jennifer tells her conversion story from atheism to faith in Jesus Christ with wild humor. Today's birthday post reflects on lessons learned in a season of sickness, long recovery and hope.
"I’ve come to see the radically freeing truth that our plans only matter to the extent that they’re ordered toward deeper intimacy with individual people. You can live a life ordered toward human intimacy as a jet-setting movie star or as an invalid confined to a hospital bed; whether you find yourself surrounded by Hollywood directors or the nurses on night shift, you will always find yourself surrounded by people in need of love. So if your ultimate goal is to make the world a little brighter by touching one person at a time, you can do that under any circumstances.
If your plans were not love-driven in the first place, then they were the kind of stupid, time-wasting plans that people shake their fists and rue through tears on their deathbeds; and if they were love-driven, then there are no worldly circumstances that could prevent you from executing them, even if the details change a bit."
Jennifer Fulwiler, Wise Catholic sister
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