Comments on: The Storm

By: PS~Erin

PS~Erin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:30:54 +0000

Tears are flowing as I read your words and circumstances. You are brave and strong. And you’re helping us to grow braver and stronger by sharing your life.
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By: ExtraordinaryMommy

ExtraordinaryMommy — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:43:18 +0000

You are extraordinary. I ache for you. And I love you.
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By: Carrington

Carrington — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:07:43 +0000

I’m so glad you wrote this so that I could have a peak into what you were feeling/thinking while I was there. It broke my heart for the boys to ask me “Did you hear about our Mabel?”, but I could see the beautiful growth and change that is happening in your family because of the special life of your daughter. I could see how she has touched you all, and brought God so much glory as her loss has drawn you to God. I’m thankful that He was there, and that you turned together as a family towards Him to cope, and figure out how to move on, instead of isolating yourselves from one another. Love you so much.
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By: Holley Gerth

Holley Gerth — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:43:11 +0000

Humbled, touched, eyes filling with tears, wishing I could hug you, be near to you, so grateful that my words can span the distance between us. Love you, brave and beautiful daughter of His.
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By: kathy

kathy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:15:51 +0000

Praying for you today. My hear aches for the pain you feel. Your pain will not return void. Love and prayers.
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By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:38:08 +0000

I remember holding a friend’s infant when my daughter lay, fighting for her life, in the cardiac intensive care unit several miles away. I hadn’t held her in weeks and my arms aches for her. It was a pain I would become intimate with as I watched her peers grow and mature while she struggled to learn the smallest skill. And now, she has gone where I cannot follow… Yet. The rain still pours for me too. Thank you for sharing this.

By: Arianne

Arianne — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:33:10 +0000

@kimatsprig, "Will you stop believing in Me because you do not understand?" yes yes yes! thank you sweet friend. xoxo

By: kimatsprig

kimatsprig — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:16:32 +0000

My heart breaks for you. I, too, have lost a child. The promise God gave me at that time was: I know the plans I have for you, plans for a hope and a future. It was a verse that He gave me over and over.
A few years later, I watched as a good friend lost her 6 month old son to Meningitis. I helped deliver this child. I couldn’t understand. I cried, I railed at God. How can you do this to one so small? To those that love him? I was angry. But what God said to me at that time stays with me still: Will you stop believing in Me because you do not understand?

I am sorry for your pain. Nothing ever will take the place of that which was lost. But you remind us all, God gives beauty for ashes.

Thanks for sharing your heart and your courage.

By: Kelly Langner Sauer

Kelly Langner Sauer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:17:00 +0000

This is one of the most achingly beautiful things I have read in a long, long time.

I read through the latter half of Revelation two weeks ago. Such pain, such power, such joy – the Alpha and Omega – the beginning of Life, the end of death…

You leave me with tears. And your words remind me of a song. I think you would like it. You have probably heard it already.

Your pain teaches me that my pain is not the only pain. This journey, your story draws me out of myself. You are teaching me to embrace what He has given me, what He did not choose to take from me. You are teaching me to open my heart instead of hiding away. You are teaching me what the life I speak of looks like, this going forward at the end of something, at the beginning of something.

I am wild with it, the internal confusion I feel over how to react to you, how to relate to you, how I am being changed through my knowledge of you, how God has gifted you with something I have feared, something I am afraid would destroy me. I wonder if He is preparing me for something, or if He is just revealing His heart for me to lay down my life for Him – in the little ways or in the big ways.

I am totally writing a book in your comments. I will stop now.

He is incredible in you, Arianne.

Oh Mabel, do you see, do you rejoice with Him to see Him making your mama like Him through your little sweet life? Already you know Him and how beautiful He is…

By: Julie Todd

Julie Todd — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:25:48 +0000

This was absolutely stunning. I am so sorry for your loss. I cannot imagine the pain that you have borne… but I believe and can see that the One who is Love is taking the ashes of your pain and turning them into beauty. I see the beauty of the Lord on you… in your words… in your pain..

It’s my first visit here…. I have loved my time here. It’s great to meet you!

I’d love to have you stop by for a visit if you’d like. I love meeting new people.

Bless you dear one, bless you…..
Julie
http://jewelsightings.blogspot.com
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