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   Today is the 22nd. « The Pipers says:

   March 22, 2008 at 2:50 pm

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   shawnda says:

   March 22, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing!

   I have thought of ya’ll many times while reading through More Love to Thee. I can’t help but sharing this poem that maybe pierced my heart the way it did because of Felicity:

   As I have seen a mother bend
   with aching, bleeding heart,
   O’er lifeless limbs and lifeless face -
   So have I had to part.

   With the sweet prattler at my knee,
   The baby from my breast,
   And on the lips so cold in death,
   such farewell kisses prest.

   If I should live a thousand years
   Time’s hand cannot efface,
   the features painted on my heart
   of each beloved face.

   If I should bathe in endless seas
   They could not wash away
   the memory of these children’s forms;
   how fresh it is to-day.

   Ah, how my grief has taught my heart
   to feel another’s woe!
   With what a sympathetic pang
   I watch the tear-drops flow!

   Dear Jesus! must Thou take our lambs,
   our cherished lambs away?
   Thou hast so many, we so few -
   Canst Thou not let them stay?

   Must the round limbs we love so well,
   Grow stiff and cold in death?
   Must all our loveliest flowerets fail
   Before his icy breath?

   Nay Lord, but it is hard, is hard -
   Oh, give us faith to see,
   That grief, not joy, is best for us
   Since it is sent by Thee.

   And oh, by all our mortal pangs
   Hear Thou the mother’s plea-
   Be gracious to the darling ones
   We’ve given back to Thee.

   Elizabeth Prentiss

   And this is from a letter she wrote to a friend who just lost her baby (after losing her own)….

   “It it possible, is it possible that you are made childless? I feel distressed for you my dear friend, I long to fly to you and weep with you; it seems as if I must say or do something to comfor you. But God only can help you now and how thankful I am for a throne of grace adn power where I can commend you, again and again, to Him who doeth all things well. I never realize my affliction in the loss of my children as I do when death enters the house of a friend. Then I feel that I can’t have it so. But why should I think I know better than my Divine Master what is good for me, or good for those I love? Dear Carrie, I trust that in this hour of sorrow you have with you that Presence, before which alone sorrow and sighing flee away. God is left; Christ is left; sickness, accident, death cannot touch you here. Is this not a blissful thought?…May sorrow bring us both nearer to Christ! I can almost fancy my little Eddy has taken your little Maymee by the hand and led her into the bosom of Jesus. How strange our children, our own little infants, have seen Him in His glory, whom we are only yet longing for and struggling towards!

   Another sweet daughter has been lent to me of the Lord. Lent, LENT, let me repeat myself in remembrance of my own sorrow and of yours.”

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   Kendra says:

   March 23, 2008 at 12:37 am

   so very saddened for your loss. hoping that amidst the pain of a life-that-could-have-been, you can still rejoice in a life that IS!

   tears and prayers for you all.

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   bre101 says:

   March 23, 2008 at 11:17 pm

   im so sorry for your loss..
   my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

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   Shannon says:

   April 2, 2008 at 8:57 pm

   She looks like Orison, especially when he was a baby.

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