Today we received devastating news. A sweet precious adorable three year old baby girl from our church family is critically ill and not expected to live. This is the kind of news that takes your breath away like a swift kick to the solar plexus. It's late and I've been praying for this baby girl and her broken hearted parents all day long.
I can't sleep.
I find myself asking the Lord why. Why does He allow these horrible things to happen to these good Christ honoring parents? Why does He give children to awful abusive parents and take children from parents who only want to honor Him in all they do? My head knows and understands all the complexities of the mystery of God. My head knows and understands there are no answers on this side of heaven. But, my heart is broken and it doesn't know or understand any of it.
When my heart is broken, that is the time I draw upon what I know of the Lord and His promises. He has promised grace sufficient to walk through this hard place. He has promised hope in eternal life. He has promised peace and comfort and joy that comes in the morning.
But, tonight is dark and it seems awfully long. I have a feeling this won't be the only long night for me, for my sweet friends who are faced with the hardest of goodbyes, and for my church who loves each and every person truly as a member of their own family.
...weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Psalm 30:5
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. John 16:22
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Revelation 21:4
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i don't know them, but please...extend my condolences to them. Let them know that the larger church family is praying for them as well.
I cannot imagine losing a child.
May your church be an extension of God's love to this poor, broken family.
Praying for them! SO sad. :-(
Our friends, the Lichlyters, put this little girl on our prayer chain. I have been praying for this family.
This weekend at our Missions Conference our speaker who lost his wife of 30+years to cancer said he wanted us to always remember three facts:
God is God. God is good. God is always good to His people.
This is hard to understand when something like this happens, but it gives believers Hope.
hugs! and prayers!
I will be praying for them. We have special friends (for over 20 years) that just learned that their unborn daughter has Trisomy 13 and will not live long on this earth. They are devastated, we are devastated, but know that God IS good, and has a perfect plan for them and their Precious Daughter.
God bless you as you seek to be the hands of God,
Gina
I am so sorry. I will be praying for this family as I go about my day.
Yesterday I was at my daughter's church and her pastor preached on hardship and suffering and faith and the love of God and God's grace and our relationship with the Lord and how we can have peace in the midst of it all.
Keep the faith dear one.
I'm so sorry! Please let them know I am praying and will ask my local church family to pray for them as well.
When something like this happens, communities really feel it together. We (our community) lost a 4 year old boy a few years ago. As a mom I didn't sleep for several nights suffering along with the family. I was blown away by how many people who didn't even know them still felt their pain. It's now a few years later, they have made many changes in their lives, but their little boy will never be forgotten. I stopped by today as I'm working on visiting the many blogs from Bloggy Carnival now that I have time to read and comment.
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