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Loss of a Child

It has been said that life is a learning process and that all things happen for a reason. Although this explanation may be valid in many instances, there are still numerous events in our lives that are difficult to fathom. All too often things happen that we may never understand entirely but except them without question. Perhaps trying to appease ourselves by saying we comprehend the situation when in fact we have a clue.One such instance occurred in my life on Christmas morning past.

A casual friend wrote an email the likes of which challenged my faith and everything I hold dear in my life. Just eight short months ago my friend and I rejoiced in a blessed event which took place in her life. She became great grandmother to a beautiful baby girl. What made that moment so special to me was seven months earlier I became the grandfather of a splendid and beautiful baby girl.

Over the months to follow we shared many blessed moments such as babies first tooth, first word, and many other things babies do to impress their grandparents or great grandparents allowing them to boast to their friends and relatives. Christmas morning my friend shared a moment with me that brought fear to my heart. It was a moment that I wished never to experience or have share with others.

She informed me that her great granddaughter had a condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy and it would claim he life before reaching the age of two. It was not presented as something that could be cured or she might grow out of but instead it was definite and had a fatal ending. What made it worse was the prognosis gave no promise that she would even make it that far.

I tried to in vision such an event happening to my own granddaughter just to see how I might respond. The mere fact of that possibility happening in my life immediately brought tears to my eyes. My heart trembled as the adrenaline of fear passed through my veins.

My first feelings were for the baby who would soon parish, never to experience life and all the beautiful things it has to offer. Then I came to the realization that it is impossible to miss something one never experienced it the first place. Placing myself in the parent’s position I questioned my feelings on losing an infant child. Never experiencing such a tragic event made it impossible for me to imagine the pain and suffering that would follow. Then there was the thought of other s that would also be affected by the loss, such as the brother, sister, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great grandparents, none which would ever get to share their life with her. Such a tragic event would leave a void in numerous people lives.

Realizing there was really nothing I could say on the topic because I had never experienced anything remotely comparable. Feeling humbled by the thought of what to say, the only thing that seem appropriate was to pray for everyone that would be affected by the loss. Looking up toward the heavens with tears in my eyes I fell to my knees in sorrow and discontentment. With sadness in my heart and a lump in my throat I muttered in a crackling voice the first thing that came to mind. Why Lord!!!!

Sleep well my Friend wherever you may be.
Copyright YmiRon@aol.com January 1, 2009

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