October is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. today is the actual day set aside for this remembrance.
today, i'd like to publically remember my baby boy, theron tyler. I lost theron in a miscarriage ten years ago next month. how different our life would be today if that hadn't happened. but today I am wise enough to "count it all joy." (james 1:2)
and speaking of james, I will never forget sweet Isaac james, who left life before making it to the outside after 36 weeks of being held on the inside of my wonderful, sweet, dear friend, 5 years ago in August.
and while i'm speaking of dear sweet friends, I have another few who lost some. in my thoughts often are molly joy, bear, and pilot, as well as sweet little sister joy.
I have lost a couple nieces or nephews that I never met but I will never forget. I did not get to see them, I didn't get to know their personalities, or even introduce myself to them and hear their cry... or their names. I love you, sweet sister, for bearing through the pain of loosing two and still persevering and laboring through two more hard labors bringing me two lovely darling nieces.
I love these babies. I love these mamas. I also love the fathers that also went through the same parental loss... I love our God who gets us through these losses, who holds us, comforts, and listens to us and loves us through and through. I am happy to have the reassurance that I will reunite with my boy in heaven when I die. I look forward to that. I can't wait to hug and kiss him!
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31
today, i'd like to publically remember my baby boy, theron tyler. I lost theron in a miscarriage ten years ago next month. how different our life would be today if that hadn't happened. but today I am wise enough to "count it all joy." (james 1:2)
and speaking of james, I will never forget sweet Isaac james, who left life before making it to the outside after 36 weeks of being held on the inside of my wonderful, sweet, dear friend, 5 years ago in August.
and while i'm speaking of dear sweet friends, I have another few who lost some. in my thoughts often are molly joy, bear, and pilot, as well as sweet little sister joy.
I have lost a couple nieces or nephews that I never met but I will never forget. I did not get to see them, I didn't get to know their personalities, or even introduce myself to them and hear their cry... or their names. I love you, sweet sister, for bearing through the pain of loosing two and still persevering and laboring through two more hard labors bringing me two lovely darling nieces.
I love these babies. I love these mamas. I also love the fathers that also went through the same parental loss... I love our God who gets us through these losses, who holds us, comforts, and listens to us and loves us through and through. I am happy to have the reassurance that I will reunite with my boy in heaven when I die. I look forward to that. I can't wait to hug and kiss him!
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31
