i literally have chills running up and down my body right now! wow. this is incredibly written with emotion just welling up inside me. my goodness. ((hugs)) i'm so sorry for your loss and my prayers go out to your friends ((hugs)).
i can sooo relate with you. im very sensitive with these kinds of stories. i just can't help but cry when i hear a story like this. i always think that it could happen to me. great journaling susan! every word of it is really heartfelt. great page!
Gosh, I sooooo get this. I try to avoid bad news stories about kids, but when I do hear one I just cry. I don't think I could survive without my Rosie....You said this so well.
How awful :o( It is always so terrible when a child dies. I will pray for this family and for all who are affected by this. I am sorry for your loss. <<hugs>>
Yes, you CAN journal and ohhhh my....what a piece of journaling you did. That story is soooo heartwrenching and your emotions put into words was incredible. I'm soooo sorry for your friends and doubt I could ever get through anything like that. This is a truly heartfelt lo.....
oh, wow---your words touched me so much. this is magnificent. i can really relate--i was reading a news article online the other night about the 9 year-old who was assaulted and killed by her stepdad, and I literally cried uncontrollably for her. It just tears me up inside. Thanks for sharing. B
Beautiful page, beautiful journaling and BEAUTIFUL picture of your precious little girl. What a sad tragedy..... I, too, think of these scenarios often and have no idea how people get through these terrible times.
I am so incredibly sorry to hear about that little girl! I too have the exact same feelings that you described in your journaling. Even though we believe in God and trust his plans for us, some things just don't make sense and seem so unfair. I pray for the parents of that sweet girl and hope that they find the strength to push forward. Gosh, thanks so much for sharing this with us, it is making me realize that yes, that whining and fighting and crying is so much easier to deal with than a death of any of our children. Hugs to you!!!
Oh stars... could have Amanda challenged me any more? I don't do journaling well. But we have had a tragic thing happen in our circle of friends over the last day and it has caused me to question and examine a lot of things. Some friends of our loss their daughter yesterday after she was hit by a van. The picture of Brooke is at the age of what the little girl who died was - 2 yrs old.
JOURNALING: Anger. Bitterness. Confusion. These are the things I get consummed with when facing one of the most difficult things any person has to face. The death of a child. All praise to God above I have not personally experienced the loss, but in the past year I have been in touch with 3 childhood deaths. The latest are people we were acquainted with in our previous hometown. We received word yesterday that their 2 year old daughter was killed when struck by a van. And the child was in the care of a family friend. Our circle of friends have been devastated by this loss. And now the mass of question evades our minds. How in the world can the Lord take this precious child? I know that I know that I know that my faith and trust relies on God’s ultimate perfect plan, but when it comes to something like this my earthly sinful selfish mind can not wrap around the logic of how this could happen. But we embrace the family, we embrace our friends, our spouse, and we look in to the eyes of our children and thank God for every moment we have with them. And this is what I tried to do after learning the news last night. I could not sleep. I could do nothing but think of the horror of being in their shoes. Consequently, I got out of my bed and went and climbed in to bed with my daughter and spent the rest of the night either praying over her, staring at her or cuddling with her - praying I would never have to experience the loss of her. And this part is what scares me the most. Should the Lord have it in His plan for that to occur I’m very scared by how I would react. Would I have the strength to put one foot in front of the other and go through the grieving process and then continue on with life. The imagination reeling around tells me “no”. It says “just bury me with my child.” No one plans for the tragic loss of a child. It’s just something that shouldn’t happen. But somehow we are promised by the Lord to be carried through it. So as we drive to Austin to sit among the hundreds of mourners for this young life I will reflect on how our children are truly on loan from God. How they truly His and His alone and we have been given the priviledge and the opportunity to have them in our earthly possession for a short time. We get the responsibility of preparing them for the world, of guiding their course and direction and allowing God to use their lives for His Kingdom and His purpose. And at times His “loan” may drive us crazy (as mine is doing now), but I’d rather be driven crazy by this sweet whiney 4 year old voice than go without it.
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