Thank God for Nature

Welcome to the weekly blog of a Donate Life Northwest volunteer who has graciously offered to tell the story of her journey through the organ transplant process. She posts to this blog every Wednesday so you can ride this interesting, bumpy road with her.

I was reading my church newsletter and was very struck by a column entitled “Have you made peace with God yet?” I have to admit throughout my illness and Seth’s death I have struggled with my faith and my faithfulness. I have found comfort in the fact, or shall I say belief, that I am at least a spiritual person. The next article in the newsletter brought me even further comfort and maybe even joy. It spoke of how so many find God in nature. “Yes!” I wanted to shout out loud. “This is me.” I have made peace with my God, for nature is where I intensely feel a spiritual presence – when I am out walking, breathing the air, when I am at the lake or the beach. It was a similar sense of awe at every birth I attended, the power of life and the raw beauty of a newborn. And I can convey this feeling to the new life I now have in my chest. So yes, perhaps in a sense I have made peace with God, and if not fully, perhaps I still have a bit more time.

The author is a heart failure patient going through the post-transplant process. She also is a nurse and former hospital administrator. She would like to thank Donate Life Northwest for permitting her to post her observations on the Donate Life Northwest website. She also wants to emphasize that all opinions and views stated in the posts are her own and not those of Donate Life Northwest.

Tags: heart transplant, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, organ donation