"This Is My Now: Live-Laugh-Love", has become the place where I often share some of my most intimate thoughts. A place where memories and adventures are shared and a place where smiles of laughter and tears of pain often fall as I write...yet healing happens with every drop. It is through the eyes of my children, and the short life of a baby boy, born sleeping in the arms of God, that I have learned so much about our Creator and His love for us. May all who visit and read about how He continues to be my source of strength, be drawn closer to God through our stories. I am thankful that even for just a brief moment, I was blessedto hold in my arms a little angel from Heaven.
"...I have loved you with an everlasting love..." ~Jeremiah 31:3 (Names In The Sand by Carly Marie Dudley)
Go ahead and mention our Joshua. Our baby that died you know. Don't worry about hurting us further. The depth of our pain doesn't show. Don't worry about making us cry. We are already crying inside. Help us to heal by releasing the tears that we try to hide. We hurt when you just keep silent., pretending he didn't exist. We'd rather you mention our Joshua, knowing that he has been missed. You ask us how we are doing. We say "pretty good" or "fine". But healing is something ongoing...We feel it will take a lifetime.