If this day wants to make you crawl in a hole and hide for a while, please know you are not alone. Your pain is understood, unfortunately, by many others. Jesus is wrapping you in His arms every moment.
My Facebook and Instagram feeds are filled with people bravely opening their hearts and expressing their pain of losing a little one all too soon, including my own feeds. There are people of every shape, size, color and background with the same pain, one we can wholeheartedly say we don’t want to wish on even our greatest enemies.
Children are such a part of the female identity. When you get engaged, get married or especially, when you have been married for a while, people ask about kids. Are you having them? How many do you want? Why haven’t you had kids? They also say things like “You aren’t getting any younger” or “It’s better to have them young so you can enjoy your later years”. I’ve been guilty of saying some of these things when I was much younger and naive with no idea of the immense pain I could be causing in someone’s life.
As if it weren’t enough, I awoke to the news that there is a royal baby on the way. The last few weeks, it seems that everywhere I turn there is pregnancy announcements, commercials about raising children, TV shows talking about any number of things related to children and pregnancy. Sometimes…many times…it all feels like just too much. Throughout the last year and a half, my mind was elsewhere but now that the dust has cleared, this pain and heartbreak has come roaring back stronger than ever.
Until the day we get to see our little ones in Heaven, I pray that God would comfort you and bless you with children of your own. Whether they are biological, adopted, fostered or belong to another set of parents that love them and care for them and give you the opportunity to love them like your own, I pray the children in your life would bring a smile to your heart with their sense of adventure and child-like faith.
Blessings to you sister on this day and every day. May Jesus be your rock, your all and the provider of hope. Listen to this song and rest in the arms of Jesus.
Give yourself grace and spend some time taking care of yourself any time you need.
Want to talk to someone about your loss or about the hope of Jesus? I’m here anytime. Feel free to reach out via FB, email or the comments below.
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