I wasn't sure about this topic. Then I realized that the purpose of this blog, as I understand it, is to share what is foremost on my mind with the hope that someone else will benefit from my experience and put to use some of what I, and others, have learned on a particular subject.
Unfortunately, this is a subject I am far too familiar with. People say, "Peggy, it's been so long, shouldn't you put this behind you?" Well, they are correct in that is has been a long time. We lost our sixteen year old daughter to cancer on Feb 10, 1988; almost 22 years ago....and yesterday. Only someone who has not lost a child can make such comments. To my husband and I, especially this time of year, our lives were fractured on that day. Like the fracture of a major bone in your body, it has healed, but there is an obvious scar to anyone who knows where to look.
For many years I would chastise myself for constantly keeping her in, if not the forefront surely, the back of my mind at all times. I would tell myself all the standard clich?s and expect that things would fall into place as expected by those who taught me those clich?s. Then with time I was able to receive a work from God that helped me. I don't know exactly why, but it made me realize that my hope was true. And I could remember her with joy and sometimes with loneliness, but always with hope for forever. Those scriptures were Acts 2: 24-28.
Have joy and peace my fellow parents. For a day comes for those of us who follow Christ that we will have our children back....FOREVER !!!
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