This is little Thomas. This poor little guy was born at around 25 weeks. He is fighting for his little life. Please pray for him. I was astonished and heart-broken when I read about him. Life is really so fragile. When I see Faustina, I now know how gratuitously blessed we are by the Lord. This little fellow is so innocent, and just wants to live; he should still be in the comfortable warmth of his mother's womb. Please pray that he grow quickly and live a normal, healthy life, if that is what the Lord will for him. "Non mea sed tua voluntas fiat."
Although there is a profound element of sadness here, we can also see how the Lord works through Thomas' (and his faith-filled family's) suffering to bring over 600 unique visitors together to witness his struggle, see his parents' unshakable faith, and pray for his recovery. His struggle ought to cause us all to think about the 4 Final Things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. It is a reminder that in the end, all that will matter is how we "turned toward the Lord" (in St. Augustine's words) and the relationships that we fostered and cultivated in life. Thomas reminds us of our end, namely God, and how to get there: love.
I'm reading The Brother's Karamazov, and this passage struck me:
[context: the Elder or head of the monastery is comforting a mourning mother]
"Listen, mother," said the elder. "Once in olden times a holy saint saw in the Temple a mother like you weeping for her little one, her only one, whom God had taken. 'Knowest though not,' said the saint to her, 'how bold these little ones are before the throne of God? Verily there are none bolder than they in the Kingdom of Heaven. "Thou didst give us life, oh Lord," they say, "and scarcely had we looked upon it when Thou didst take it back again." And so boldly they ask and ask again that God gives them at once the rank of angels. Therefore,' said the saint, 'thou too, oh mother, rejoice and weep not, for thy little one is with the Lord in the fellowship of the angels.' That's what the saint said to the weeping mother of old."
Read about little Thomas here.
Again, please pray for this sweet, little boy, Thomas.
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