our friends lost their baby last week. she was 7 months along and they lost their beautiful baby girl, Jorai.
i've been coordinating meals through email just to help out and to give people a way to show love to our friends. the love is good, the loss of Jorai...horrible.
she has also been emailing and blogging about her and her husband's grieving process. it is so hearbreakingly raw.
and then i get an email from my cousin who is 34 weeks along in her pregnancy. she attached pictures....and she is beautiful, absolutely glowing.
two emails in my inbox...side by side...the complete opposite ends of life.
sometimes it seems to much to bare. we do bare because God tells us we can and He carries us through it...but not because we choose to.
how can the same life be filled with so much joy and hope and yet so much despair?
this is life. this is life with God.
2 comments:
Suz, Your post made me think again of this quote from Mornings with Henri J.M. Nouwen:
"Joy and sadness are as close to each other as the splendid colored leaves of a New England fall to the soberness of the barren trees. When you touch the hand of a returning friend, you already know that he will have to leave you again....This intimate experience in which every bit of life is touched by a bit of death can point us beyond the limits of our existence. It can do so by making us look forward in expectation to the day when our hearts will be filled with perfect joy, a joy that no one shall take away from us."
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