{"id":1762,"date":"2016-04-14T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:05:48","slug":"the-day-my-father-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2016\/04\/the-day-my-father-survived.html","title":{"rendered":"The day my father survived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"DSC07974\"<\/a>While driving home for lunch on the Pan-American Highway, cutting through the desert south of the city with the roaring Pacific Ocean on his right and sandy Andean foothills on his left, something went terribly wrong.\u00a0 My father was driving at an average speed when two cars intercepted him, one from the front and one from behind.\u00a0 Before he even heard the sound of two shots fired in his direction, my father had already quickly slid onto the lane to his right.\u00a0 He stepped down on the gas pedal deeper than he had ever done before, and he drove for hours.\u00a0 He drove until night fall, believing that only then it would be safe to travel home.\u00a0 Late that night, after an agonizing hour-long wait, the phone rang at home.\u00a0 It was my father.\u00a0 He asked my mother to go pick him up from where he was, and to come alone.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-five years ago this month, this harrowing event revolutionized and forever changed the life of my family.\u00a0 On April 12th<\/sup>, 1991, after years of threats and intimidation, a terrorist organization attempted to give my father a mortal blow, but fortunately he survived.\u00a0 My parents decided to abandon Peru so that my father could live.\u00a0 Though they made this choice freely a few days after the incident, I believe the decision was made for them that afternoon of April 12th<\/sup>.\u00a0 I made my First Communion the following week with my classmates, and on April 26th<\/sup> we boarded an American Airlines plane bound for Miami after packing just one bag each.\u00a0 I still remember that Home Alone<\/em> was the feature on-flight film.\u00a0 We arrived to Augusta, Georgia the following morning without having exactly processed the magnitude of what had happened, nor fully aware of its implications.<\/p>\n

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We had been uprooted from all that was familiar and comfortable to a foreign country where our roots had to be replanted or else die.\u00a0 Little did I know at that time, that the roots would firmly take hold on the new soil and that Georgia would become my home.<\/p>\n

I have learned that it is necessary to mourn those things that never came to fruition in our lives, just as we mourn the loss of those people or things that were once part of our lives.\u00a0 Sometimes we have reasonable expectations of the future that simply do not come about, and we have to mourn these anticipated future moments which never became memories. They remain dreams and desires that never materialized due to elements beyond our control.<\/p>\n

This is mourning over and bringing closure to the inevitable \u201cwhat ifs\u201d of life.\u00a0 We must trust as Saint Paul instructs us in his letter to the Romans, \u201cknow that all things work for good for those who love God.\u201d\u00a0 Life unfolds before us with unexpected twists and turns, and through them all the one thing that remains constant is God\u2019s presence.\u00a0 God is the only constant to which we can hold on to, and know that if we hold on to his love, all things will work for good.<\/p>\n

All pictures are mine, all rights reserved. \u00a0Pictures of Lima, Peru, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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