Baby Willie

March 30, 2009

I know it’s been quiet on this blog, but there are times when God gives you a special assignment and everything else must stop. Within one week, we have helped with a funeral for a much loved baby, tried to get my mother’s place ready to sell so she can move in with us, and then a fever/virus. All of those things have left me with no inspiration to blog, but rather time to really pray and search my heart.

Last week some very dear friends of ours found out that their baby, just  a few weeks from being born, had no heart beat. Other than actually watching your child suffer or die, what could be harder for a mother than to give birth to a baby that was not alive?

This family has endured so much death in the last 2 years, yet their faith remains; not only does it remain, but it is stronger.

If you could use the words beautiful and funeral together this was the time. As 100 plus of their closest friends and family stood with them in their pasture to lay Baby Willie’s body in the ground, it was obvious we were on Holy Ground. Although we all grieved because of the loss of Willie’s life, we were reminded that his life was complete in Christ. His life had purpose, just as ours does, and he was a reminder of how precious our earthly life is. Because we are Christians we know Willie is alive; he is alive and sitting with his Heavenly Father, for this we rejoice for him, at the same time we grieve for our loss. We will see him one day…one day soon! I’m thinking about how Willie already knows my daughter who entered into heaven 22 years ago, along with the others that preceded him. 

You can read about his family’s excitement only a few weeks ago as they anticipated Willie’s birth.

‘Hello, I’m your brother, I know you’re in there."

 William Charlie (after his death)

Seeing the Fingerprints of God in Our Little Valley

From the Heidelberg Confession:

What is thy only comfort in life and death? 

That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own,  but belong unto my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ;  who, with his precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil;  and so preserves me  that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head;  yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation,  and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.

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