Sometimes it is good to get some outside help, perhaps writing your book brought up a lot of pain that you have to deal with.
I haven’t written too much - so I don’t think it is that … but I have enjoyed Carol and she has been a wonderful listener!
When we don’t deal properly with the pain at the time that it happens, we still have to deal with it eventually. I will pray that God sends you ministering angels to help you get through this time. …
We were alike - but she was so much better than I - perhaps the reason God took her. At Mass in her honor today - Fr. spoke of McKayla and how special she was and how she shared her talents with everyone … She was perfection - if it is possible to be - she was close to it. The pain I feel is that I loved her so much!
What first drew me to you was the loss of your child in March, mine died in the womb, March of 1978, at that time, no one much really acted like I had even lost a child, even the Doctor acted like it was no big deal, …
Yes, I lost three babies in-utero myself and I thought that was the cross I would bear for the rest of my life and perhaps alone … because no-one knows what it is like to have a life growing inside of you … unless you have … it gives me some consolation that KK is with her siblings . She knows them even before Daddy and I do!
We just celebrated the birth of our 9th grandchild, (their first child, our ninth grandchild), he is an awesome gift, one that was prayed for for over 6 years to make it here. He is truly loved and wanted and has made his parents the happiest people on this earth. They are just estatic, they had never prevented children in any way, shape or form, and had always wanted as many as the good Lord would …
**So glad he arrived safe and sound - how good is God. **
My son is probably one of the most pro-life people on the planet, one with faith that can move mountains and he just keeps on with his rock solid love of God through it all. He called me right before my grandson was born telling me that the Doctor said, “within the hour”. Then he called right after he was born, just about an hour later, he was crying and laughing all at the same time, telling me how perfertly formed he was and how much he looked like both of them …
Hope - it is a wonderful - life line. I do not know where i would be without my faith … I shudder to think to be honest. Your family sounds wonderful - you did an amazing job!!!
I am sure your husband and other daughter must feel the same way, they just want you to be alright, they want their wife and …
That is what is other’s who have walked this walk have promised … but we are still raw from her loss … although - this year - we have found moments of peace … Christmas was terribly hard … the second year definately, for us - the worst!
I believe that when we laugh with, cry with and thank God with others it is a very healing gift. Our grief is something that we need to let happen in order to heal properly. You sound like you are taking time with it and I think …
I like to think i have helped other’s and they have told me that – but I want to do more. Everyday I ask God - what is it that you would like me to do with this pain … what? He han’t answered yet!
I never got to hold the little one I lost, my arms still ache to at times, I know how much your arms ache too, just for one more hug, one more smile, one more time to see her smiling face, one more time you can hear…
Just one more … yes … Just one more …
The good Lord will hold her for you until you meet again, she is still alive, you just can’t see her right now is all. As much as we wanted them here with us, He wanted them even more with Him.
Yes, and I DO accept that … I really do - I just miss her - still aching for her!
I sure don’t have any answers, I just know that we have to keep going forward trusting in the good Lord that He knows what He is doing, because I sure don’t know how to make any sense of it. Sometimes it …
Yes, I believe you are right … I definately know you are rigth! Next time you hug him, think of my KK … she was an exquisit child!
I will pray that our good Lord will give you what you need, that all that you face will be a help to you, that you will be at peace on the 2nd anniversary of her death and that you will feel her presence with you still, …
My Brother In-Law is also devoted to St. Joseph - and when she Died on Mar 19 - a couple of months later he told me that St. Joseph is the Patron Saint of a Happy Death (well one role he plays) … I pray it was for I think often what happened on the mountain; was she afraid; did she know she was dying … all things that a mom should never have to worry about or think about.
I’ll leave you with this: My parents were born in Ireland and my father’s favorite saying was … until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.