Every now and then we have our priorities realigned for us. This happened at our place this morning.
Our daughter has been working as a Community Care Access worker for several years now to help pay her way through nurse's training. She is ambitious, smart and a super achiever. 4.0 GPA in college. Best darn grain buggy driver I ever had. A natural working with cattle. And a real big heart.
Her work as a respite care giver has brought some very delicate and handicapped little children into our home for a day or an afternoon or overnight stays so their moms can get a quiet day for self-care or just one good night's sleep.
This morning our daughter called home to tell us that the 13 mo. old boy that we recently had here passed away during the night. What a heart breaker for her, the mom and all who have given care to this beautiful little bundle ever since he was born.
I held him for the first time when he was here two weeks ago. It just broke my heart to see and feel this poor little guy struggling to breathe and eat. That was his lot in life. For him, life was all struggle.
It seemed so unfair that an infant should suffer so through no fault of his own. It made me want to cry out to God for allowing this, but I understand that we live in a broken world where bad stuff happens for no apparent reason - we are a fallen people.
So while there will be pain and discomfort as long as the earth stands, I believe that the Redeemer will make it all new in His time. But right now I just cry for the pain that this young mother is enduring in the loss of her baby boy, however much she saw him suffer in his short time here on earth.
It does help to know that he is now running happily beside Jesus and breathing without the help of tubes and masks, maybe picking ripe and eating strawberries or whatever is growing up there!
But we grieve with the mom who now has no baby to hold in her arms. If you think of it, please pray for her.
Our daughter has been working as a Community Care Access worker for several years now to help pay her way through nurse's training. She is ambitious, smart and a super achiever. 4.0 GPA in college. Best darn grain buggy driver I ever had. A natural working with cattle. And a real big heart.
Her work as a respite care giver has brought some very delicate and handicapped little children into our home for a day or an afternoon or overnight stays so their moms can get a quiet day for self-care or just one good night's sleep.
This morning our daughter called home to tell us that the 13 mo. old boy that we recently had here passed away during the night. What a heart breaker for her, the mom and all who have given care to this beautiful little bundle ever since he was born.
I held him for the first time when he was here two weeks ago. It just broke my heart to see and feel this poor little guy struggling to breathe and eat. That was his lot in life. For him, life was all struggle.
It seemed so unfair that an infant should suffer so through no fault of his own. It made me want to cry out to God for allowing this, but I understand that we live in a broken world where bad stuff happens for no apparent reason - we are a fallen people.
So while there will be pain and discomfort as long as the earth stands, I believe that the Redeemer will make it all new in His time. But right now I just cry for the pain that this young mother is enduring in the loss of her baby boy, however much she saw him suffer in his short time here on earth.
It does help to know that he is now running happily beside Jesus and breathing without the help of tubes and masks, maybe picking ripe and eating strawberries or whatever is growing up there!
But we grieve with the mom who now has no baby to hold in her arms. If you think of it, please pray for her.