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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
This week is sweet and sorrowful...
We're super excited to welcome home two new friends and cousins this week! Joshua will be arriving tonight and we can't wait to meet him :). On Friday, we welcome sweet Lily Liu. We have been praying so much for these families - trying our best to love them home from afar. So, we are SOOOOO excited that we will actually be able to meet them this week.
Then Saturday morning we'll get up early, drive to Glen Carbon (near St. Louis) and attend the funeral of my two little nieces. Andrew's brother Nathan and his wife Michelle were 30 weeks along, expecting twins. Michelle was in the hospital so they could keep a closer eye on the twins (one was a bit bigger than the other). Saturday night they did a sonogram and everything was fine. Sunday at 3pm they did another sonogram and couldn't find a heartbeat...not one. Nathan and Michelle are not new to this awful pain - they lost their first blessing 2 years ago April. The twins, Brooklyn & Amelia will be buried near big sister Cassandra.
4 children, 4 blessings from the Lord. 2 redeemed, coming home, 2 at HOME to stay. The thing is, it's easy to see how Jesus has worked to bring Joshua and Lily home, but to recognize that He is no less at work with Brooklyn and Amelia....it's just hard. Yet we know that even though our hearts break and their deaths seem so wrong, this Truth is no less true. God is still on the throne.
the LORD gave , and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD. Job 1:21b
Then Saturday morning we'll get up early, drive to Glen Carbon (near St. Louis) and attend the funeral of my two little nieces. Andrew's brother Nathan and his wife Michelle were 30 weeks along, expecting twins. Michelle was in the hospital so they could keep a closer eye on the twins (one was a bit bigger than the other). Saturday night they did a sonogram and everything was fine. Sunday at 3pm they did another sonogram and couldn't find a heartbeat...not one. Nathan and Michelle are not new to this awful pain - they lost their first blessing 2 years ago April. The twins, Brooklyn & Amelia will be buried near big sister Cassandra.
4 children, 4 blessings from the Lord. 2 redeemed, coming home, 2 at HOME to stay. The thing is, it's easy to see how Jesus has worked to bring Joshua and Lily home, but to recognize that He is no less at work with Brooklyn and Amelia....it's just hard. Yet we know that even though our hearts break and their deaths seem so wrong, this Truth is no less true. God is still on the throne.
the LORD gave , and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD. Job 1:21b
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