Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 48

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Loved into Loving
“How can we live any way but fearlessly? How can we not
take each shovel-to-the-head that life greets us with as
anything besides vitamins? We are bulletproof. With love.”
–Todd Komarnicki ’87

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by Todd Komarnicki ’87

years—everything had coalesced on a
dream project that had seemed handblessed by God from the very start. The
n August 29, 2012, I woke up and said to expected good news was not just going
my wife, “This is gonna be a great day.”
to lift my boat; it was going to lift a lot of
We were in Ireland, visiting my inboats. The word was, of course, going to
laws, and it was sunny in County Kildare be yes.
for the first time since 1964. There was
No? I replayed the tape a thousand
also fantastic news on the precipice of
times. Reread the email. No. But I
happening work-wise, and I just felt full
thought it was so clearly God’s plan. No.
of life, hope, and praise for God.
You replay the tape a thousand times.
Two hours later, we were in an
Re-read the email. No? It can’t be no.
ambulance. Our two-year-old daughter,
It was so clearly God’s plan.
Remy, had fallen from a height, and
My precious mom, Marigrace, was
we were being rushed to the hospital.
diagnosed with a small tumor in her lung
The paramedic was saying, “If we don’t
and seven weeks later she was with the
keep your daughter awake, she might
Lord. Seven weeks.
lapse into a coma.” She spent the entire
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