Three years ago this weekend, tragedy fell on our family. We had a stillborn daughter due to an umbilical cord accident. Such events change you, forever. The pain never goes away. It comes and goes and it is not so intense but it is still there as an aching throb. Many well-meaning people try to make it so that we are not in pain. But, the pain serves a useful purpose. Ask anyone with Hansen's Disease (leprosy), the inability to feel pain is deadly. First, we are reminded by our pain of the love we had for the daughter we never met. Second, the pain allows us to minister to others who are in pain. God doesn't despise but rather seeks the soul that cries out in pain. In fact, Jesus calls those who mourn as blessed.
These are the lessons I learned from the daughter whom I never met.
Thank you for sharing this stuff.
Posted by: *** Dave | October 01, 2003 at 10:08 AM