The Parachute Metaphor

A friend of mine is in the same place I was in a few months ago.  Her 2nd IUI was unsuccessful.  It is an incredibly confusing and heartbreaking place.  She confided to me that people were looking at her like she was crazy because she "didn't lose anything."  It was to this remark that I responded:


"We did lose something… a little glimmer of hope… a chance… we jumped out of a plane and our parachute didn’t open. Maybe our back-up one will…. plan B. I don’t know. But what I do know is that Jesus is waiting with arms wide open at the end of this tough ride."

The road of infertility is a tough one. It is long and bumpy; full of twists and turns, shots and pills, procedures and guesses. I know that Jesus is with me, holding me every step of the way. He is guiding our decisions, opening doors, closing doors, saying yes and saying no. The part I wanted to emphasize was even if every path I took ended up in a roadblock, even if none of the cords I pulled opened up a parachute, Jesus wasn’t going to let me crash and burn. Jesus is my life net.  

"I usually understand what God is doing by seeing it through the rearview mirror. Only then can I connect the dots, and even then, it’s a pretty dodgy sketch. Maybe that’s why the Bible described what we are often doing as looking through a mirror dimly. The Bible says that right now we only know ‘in part’ and that one day, after we’ve gone, we’ll know 'in full.'  That makes more sense to me because it means our understanding will always have gaps and gaps are good because they leave room for God to fill in the spaces."    ~ Love Does   by Bob Goff

When our infertility journey has come to a close and our downward spiral has ended with a wicked hook turn and a soft landing, I know that I will look back and see God’s design. I will see His perfect will: each pulled cord, each explored path in the exact order they were supposed to occur. It will all have happened according to His plan. 

So yes, the parachute was a metaphor. If I had used ‘like’ or ‘as’ then it would have been a simile.  :)


Cheers!