The girl behind the counter assured me
it wouldn't and asked with a laugh in her voice. "Are you going to be
crying?"
"Yes," I answered. "I am."
We had Hope for 199 days. We loved her.
We enjoyed her richly and shared her with everyone we could. We held her during her seizures. Then we let her go.
The day after we buried Hope, my husband
said to me, "You know, I think we expected our faith to make this hurt less,
but it doesn't. Our faith gave us an
incredible amount of strength and encouragement while we had Hope, and we are
comforted by the knowledge that she is in heaven. Our faith keeps us from being swallowed by
despair. But I don't think it makes our
loss hurt any less."
-- Nancy Guthrie in “Holding on to Hope”
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