A short post today.
Our darling baby granddaughter turned one this past week.
She is a sweet little human, and we all adore her.
On her birthday, we discovered she had caught the sickness going around.
Right as we sang the birthday song and brought out the cake, the illness hit her.
Having never been sick before, her expression was confused and tortured by this awful symptom.
Everyone jumped to their feet to try to help attend to her.
Her daddy sweeped her up, never flinching as the sickness spilled out all over his shoulder.
Our hearts all ached for her. Poor little sweetheart!
She had no idea what was happening. She had never before felt this way.
Watching her first acquaintance with sickness and the feelings of misery that accompany it was difficult and sad for all of us. We know from experience that this is one of the common experiences of humanity.
Welcome to the world, dearly beloved Little One.
We are sorry to tell you that this will happen again.
However, God has blessed you with a loving mother and a loving father.
You are surrounded by family who will always love you and care for you immediately.
Meaning, you are in a safe space with safe people.
We’re sorry you had to learn this lesson of sickness on your first birthday.
We want to protect our little ones from all that we know is out there.
And yet, if we do, you will never acquire an immune system that can fight off disease.
If we are overprotective, you would never learn to settle a conflict either.
We must learn to entrust you into God’s hands.
I have prayed many times for you, the littlest one, as I have for your cousins and all their parents, my kids.
I pray that the Lord will protect all of you, guarding you all and shaping you all to be the kind of people who love others, who adore your children, and who love the Lord.
Part of learning and growing involves dealing with sickness. Even though you will be sick again, little one, all the while, you are held safely in God’s hands with Mommy and Daddy watching over you.
Tiny sweetheart, you are blessed, even in sickness.
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Poor sweet little girl! You have come into a broken world! We can love you, but we cannot fix it. You will learn one day of a Baby Boy born into this dark and broken world who came to set His people free from sin, sickness and death and that we can be born again into eternal life.
For now, thankfully, our little girl will not remember that part of her party! She was impressed with the balloons and the cake and candle burning and the singing in the video which she may be shown again and again.
What a precious post, Melinda. You take a simple but universal situation and make it so profound. We feel for our little ones and wish we could keep such woes from them. Godspeed to you and yours.
Thank you, Nancy! Our children and grandchildren can pull deep thoughts from us in their sad and difficult moments.
Praying that sweet little one is healing and feeling better each moment. Praying for the whole family.
Thank you, Melissa. As of yesterday, she was beginning to recover, though not out of it yet.
I hope she’s feeling better now! Poor sweet one! You are so right… we are in a world where sickness and suffering do indeed happen daily. But we are held close in the arms of our loving Father God, who cares for us.
We seem to have to learn this lesson early in life, Jessica, for it has the potential to empower us with kindness, understanding, and compassion for others.
Poor little one. But it is a great way to look at how God cares for us when our souls are sick with sin. Thanks for sharing the message.
What a precious and sweet post, Melinda. I love your way with words. And your photos of this angel are so adorable, she is adorable!
Thank you, Karen, for your kind words. This angel tied the words and the picture of the landscape together, even though it certainly wasn’t outside of Bethlehem.