Another Angel is Among Us!

A few nights ago I found out that my good friends nephew passed away. He was born with a chronic illness, and life expectancy was determined to be very short, but through the love and diligence of his parents this little boy lived longer than anyone had foreseen. Unfortunately he faced some really tough physical limitations. I never knew the little boy, but each time my friend would talk about him I could feel the spirit in which he brought into this world.

When my friend called and told me that he had passed, which the family was preparing for a few days that it would occur, my thoughts immediately turned to the mother, and how I wished I did not know what she was going through. But I do know what she is going through (in a different way) and I took the day to remember what those last moments with Alex were like for me. My heart broke all over again for this mother. Why do some of us have to face such incredibly difficult things? Why does Heavenly Father ask so much of us sometimes? Those are questions that might never get answered. And the more I try to make sense of things like this the more confused I grow and the more I learn that its not my time to understand but to merely trust in what the lord has asked of me, and that is not an easy task.

This poor little mother just watched her little boy pass away and sadly she has a little baby girl who has the same chronic illness. So she will be facing the same fate all over again. How heartbreaking to know that she will lose both of the children she brought into this world. That I can not understand, and my heart and soul feels so much sorrow for her. But I hope that one day she will be made whole again and that will only be possible through our Heavenly Father. And its not an easy road to journey on, believe me I have maybe journeyed a few steps, but now more than ever I do believe that there is an end and that I will reach it one day....we all can no matter what has occurred in our lives. We all have things in our lives that requires us to give all of our trust and faith in the lord and that is, to me, its incredibly difficult and scary. He is there for us and wants us to reach out to him and he is ready to bless us but many times those blessings can take time, and it requires us to be completely humbled to notice and I can truly say even in our darkest hours there is always a glimmer of light that we can see if we but only look up and want to take notice.

As for this mother, and maybe any of you mothers who are facing a gut wrenching experience with a child, please know that it takes an incredible amount of time to deal with excepting what God as asked of us, and there is no time limit on how to heal or move on. But just know that even in death there is still life and good things to enjoy and people and children to always love and that is the best way to mend your soul and pay the ultimate tribute to our loved ones who have gone before us, because in even in their death they still will have life!