Where there is love nothing is impossible

People with terminal illnesses often need huge loads of love. PHOTO/COURTESY/SHUTTERSTOCK
What you need to know:
- Through love, I have seen a small miracle, there are many more, you just need to look for them.
This article, my first in 2025 will probably be the most emotional I have written in a very long time. It is obviously because my year started on a very emotional note. You know all the books we read with a love story as the main plot? All those films we watch, the series we follow and the artwork we look at depicting traces of true love.
You know that kind of love that shakes you to the core, the one that pours out of every pore of your skin instead of sweat. The love that drains into your tear ducts and flows down like an unstoppable waterfall, the tears of joy that is, of course.
I did not find the miracle of love in none of the above. I witnessed it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears, and felt it deep in the superior venacava, and the inferior venacava and all the veins that carry the blood to my heart.
This is about someone who has been diagnosed with one of the rarest neurological diseases, one that causes a gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain. These slowly lead to loss of balance, extreme fatigue, cognitive impairment and within a certain period of time, the person will be bedridden and will die. The sad news is also that there is no known cure for this disease.
It also happened that the same person, and for several reasons, separated from his family. So, when he was finally properly diagnosed, things started to worsen. The falls occurred more often, the eyesight reduced and within just a few months, his condition worsened so fast that it was unbelievable!
As we were all anxious and wondering about how quickly this deterioration is happening, he stopped opening his eyes, stopped eating and walking, and before you know it, he was bedridden.
Then, someone that he loved so much showed up and started taking care of him, without giving too many details of the history of this relationship. The important point is that after only 48 hours, he started clinging back to life.
Although everyone knows his condition is terminal and symptoms irreversible, it seems that missing his loved ones was accelerating the shutdown of his zest for life and affecting his body in a negative way. So, what happened? What is this power that love gave him? I had to stop a few times before finishing my sentences. it is overwhelming!
And, then moving on to an even greater emotion. The one that kindles a light in your heart, there is the One you turn to, the One who can perform miracles, the One many worship and many turn away from and deny the existence of, the One that I have seen change the minds of those who say there is no God. The Almighty is showering us with love, even if it seems otherwise, His wrath is a benediction, and His tests and trials are meant to make us better and stronger.
We each have different capacities, and everyone gets their share according to their own capacity. It is the type of love that only a true lover can understand, this love is planted in the hearts of your surroundings even before you are born. I have seen a small miracle, there are many more, you just need to look for them.