These sweet girlies belong to a family we lost touch with and thanks to Facebook (love it and hate it) we're in touch again. After 7 years without contact we met up with them this weekend and it was like no time had gone by..don't you love that? And the funny things we both had added 3 more people to our families...they have 5 and so do we ( I should add that they do have 6 but one passed on). What stories of struggle and triumph we both had been through during those years, how we've grown and stretched and changed during that time....I am so humbled by them. Their latest sweet girl here in these photographs (which I love) was born a year ago and had many challanges already and this family just lives and loves her just the way she is. She has a trach , she is suctioned every few minutes due to problems swallowing, she is fed through a tube directly into her belly, her oxygen levels are constantly being monitored, and lives so joyfully in her family like any other 1 year old I know. This family says they are so blessed by her, all their kids of course, but know these wee ones are just on loan to them for a short while in this life and live for today and what joy it brings. I am truly in awe of them and once again so humbled and so challenged. How does this experience change me? What do I with this new experience and thinking about what it is like to be in their shoes? Or maybe it helps me not to judge others, to be more compassionate, to be more understanding, to help more, to worry less, to not compare my life to anyone else's because this is my life...and so on. Whatever it does if anything, I want it to humble me, I so proud in my own small minded head it makes me sick sometimes....I am just in awe really, at how big God is and how small me and my little idea writing is...lol....but He loves me anyway and I press on:)
Beautiful images of these sweet little girls!
I am from Beyond and think of you often. I've just spent a little time reading your posts and love what you write . . . it challenges me in the best way . . . to put Christ first and teach my kiddos about Him and His love for them.
Posted by: Julie Ranee | June 18, 2009 at 01:00 PM