Trying to ignore or stuff our questions because they are uncomfortable or too hard to think about isn’t helpful. They just rattle around in our minds and burrow deeper into our hearts causing confusion and raising doubt.
One of the questions many bereaved parents desperately want to answer: Did God take my child?These are my thoughts-ones I believe are backed by Scripture and align with what I know personally about God’s character.
They are the result of many months of wrestling. I offer them in hopes they will help another heart.
❤ Melanie
This is a question that comes up all the time in bereaved parents’ groups: Did God take my child?
Trust me, I’ve asked it myself.
How you answer this question can mean the difference between giving up or going on, between turning away or trusting.
So this is MY answer. The one I’ve worked out through study, prayer and many, many tears. You may disagree. That’s just fine. I only offer it because it might be helpful to some struggling and sorrowful soul.
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My daughter went home to Glory from a rare cancer and chromosomal translocations that mutated, plus their complications. She was 42.
Even though my heart shattered into a million pieces and my life changed in an instant God spared her from Covid and the chaotic mandates.
She was special needs, had set routines, would never have accepted wearing a mask, distancing herself by 6 feet and all the fear.
These rules would not have made any sense to her and she would have mentally and emotionally suffered greatly.
In my heart, I believe God took her home so she would not have to go through those emotions.
True, her cancer was awful and cruel but her Hospice team, myself and friends and family who showed up for her, alleviated the bad moments.
Her symptoms were subtle, doctors not concerned therefore I was not either.
From the time the symptoms reared their ugly head in August for 6 months, she was brave but unknowing that death would ultimately follow.
I am grateful she lived as long as she did and more so that he honored me by choosing to be her mother.
Thank you for being such a beacon in our lives Melanie, you honor Dominic well.
Isabel, Christina’s mom
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” ― Audrey Hepburn http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/692403.Audrey_Hepburn
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