Please Pray

When I look back at the posts on my blog there have been several occasions when I have "vented" and been critical (mostly of myself but sometimes of my life or children) and today I am regretting that. I have a wonderful life. A wonderful family. Wonderful friends. I mean it when I say that I am blessed and every day I try and remind myself to be humble and appreciative. I have two wonderful healthy children. Just that would have been enough but I cannot even count the other blessings that I have received. I am so thankful today. And I am so sad.

A few weeks ago my friend Hannah had her family portraits taken by a photographer named Sarah Bussey. They are amazing. They capture Hannah's beautiful family so well. I have such admiration for her work. Hannah told me that Sarah was expecting a little girl and was going to name her Mamie. Well, Thursday Sarah delivered Mamie at 37 weeks, stillborn. I don't think that God chooses one person's baby to be healthy and another to suffer, or be sick, or die. I don't understand why horrible things happen to babies or children and their families. All I know is that in a moment a child that was supposed to live, supposed to be healthy, supposed to go home with her Mom and Dad, did not. I cannot even begin to imagine the sadness and emptiness that they are feeling, and the long hard journey ahead of them. I am praying for this family. Please pray for the Busseys and Adams.