I Learn to Bow

Jack is having a great week. We go in for a blood draw tomorrow, but he has a 2 week break in the chemo before he starts up the next phase. The next phase includes the same drugs, although not as high a dosage as in the induction phase.
Jack was able to play this week with his best friend from Kindergarten, Aaron. They are in different classes this year, and don't get to see each other at all during the school day. Definately the highlight of Jack's week.
Jack continues with his physical and occupational therapy. The chemo drugs affect his motor skills, so that service helps him.
We have had a quiet week this week. It feels great to just clean house and hang out with family.
I read a great book about a month ago, Walk On, the spiritual journey of U2. I have always like their music, but when I was younger and listened to it alot, I never paid any attention to the lyrics. After reading this book and listening to their music again, I realize most of their songs could play on Christian radio, they are inspirational and convicting. One of the people written about in a song that they wrote was an Irish boy named, Christopher Nolan. Here is a bit of what was said about him...
"Miracle Drug is a song based around the life and disability of Christopher Nolan, a school colleague of the band. After a difficult birth, the motor center of his brain was so damaged that he could not coordinate his limbs. His voice was so distorted that it was unintelligible. When he was eleven, he was given a new miracle drug called Lioresal, which relaxed his muscles so that he could move his neck ever so slightly. He was given a unicorn stick that was strapped to his forehead and allowed him to type. The family was aware that Nolan's mind was probably not as tattered as the rest of his body. They knew he was making an effort to read. However, the tiniest movement of his neck revealed a genius who had been captive in a dysfunctional body for years. He started to write, and poetry started to flow. He was fifteen when his first book Dam-Burst of Dreams was published. ...there were a couple of crucial aspects to his story that caused Nolan to end up in a song. The first was that when he finally got the chance to write, Nolan didn't rage at God but wrote his first poem, "I Learn to Bow." Bono was impressed with the attitude of a frustrated genius unable to communicate who saw being able to move his neck ever so slightly as the greatest blessing of life. Being angry with God seems a more natural response than to bow in worship."

What an awesome story, and what a testament to Christophers mother who read to her son without knowing if he really could understand or not, she read alot to him the book said, and by Christopher's first expression she must have read the Bible to him and passed on a faith that he totally "got". So many of us who have full use of our bodies, minds, that can speak, don't "get" it, like that boy did. We get frustrated at God when things don't work out like we would have hoped. I know that God wants us to be honest with Him about our feelings, struggles, good and bad, but sometimes I wish that my first response would be "I Learn to Bow." not "why God, why?"