A Parent's Sacrifice

I have been doing cases in the eye room these past few days. We will do over 20 children with cataracts over the first few weeks of this year. One family had a son with congential cataracts, unable to see much more than light and dark. They lost everything seeking help. Several surgeries later his left eye was hopelessly damaged and sightless, his right eye had developed a dense secondary cataract blocking sight in his other eye. They had sacrificed everything to gain sight for their son - and they were now no further ahead.

We were able to remove much of the obstruction from his functional eye and should resotre reaosonable vision if only in one of his eyes.

Only a parent can really understand the sacrifice one would make for a child, and only a parent could understand the hopelessness and frustration of sacrificing all for a child and yet without effect. I am reminded of the incredible sacrifice that God made and how much He must long for us to walk with Him.