Its 2:30 AM and I cant sleep. All I can think about are all the things my daughter will be missing this month. As the holidays approach, I cant help but be saddened by all the things Kylie should be doing, but she cannot do because they have been stolen from her. She should be home running around Papa and Grandmas backyard with her cousins, carving pumpkins with them and building spooky houses, helping grandma make her graveyard and shopping with mama to get ready for our Halloween party. Isnt that what life is about? The memories you build and the moments cherished that so many take for granted? How is it that there is a whole other life out there that people are so quick to dismiss. So much pain and life lost. So many memories stolen. I see pictures of families with their children at pumpkin patches and getting excited about what theyre being for Halloween, and then I look around this hospital and there is so much suffering and so many amazing kids just wishing so badly that they could be out there with their cousins or friends. Life isnt fair. And at times it feels so unbearable. But we must remember, our life here on earth is just a whisper. Its our eternal life, the life our Father has promised us, that we must hold on to. How beautiful that life will be. And without suffering there would be no beauty. And to those who do suffer, that beauty is that much more magnificent. Why? Because weve seen the eyes of the devil. We have felt his ever so daunting presence. We know how bad things can get and appreciate the beauty of the good. So please, when youre out there with your kids, grand kids, nieces and nephews, remember the kids that are locked behind these hospital walls. Appreciate the life God has given you. Before you know it they will be grown and all youll have left are the memories to look back on. *Kylie last Halloween as a Giraffe
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:00:32 +0000
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