Talking to Professor Graeme Clark this week, inventor of the bionic ear, got me thinking about restoration, and what it would mean to have something as significant as hearing restored in your life. Just imagine what it would be like to be deaf one day, and then able to hear the sounds that most of us take for granted, the next.

Has there been an invention, a breakthrough, or just something outside of yourself that’s assisted you in restoring something that wasn’t quite complete in your life?

• Maybe you’re the recipient of an artificial limb that’s allowed you to walk again
• Maybe attending counselling of some sort has allowed you to restore a broken marriage/or relationship
• Maybe taking up exercise allowed you to get your weight under control and restore parts of your life that were otherwise left unfulfilled.

Tell me what you had lost, how it was restored, and how you felt the day you got it back.