Thinking about how quickly life can change…
My neighbors & friends found out last night that their unborn baby is no longer living… just 2 weeks before delivery.
They called & asked me to come & photograph.
As I write this, I am waiting to be called up to the hospital. They started labor, but things are progressing very slow.
One of the brother’s made a comment about “praying for a miracle today”.
Got my mind rolling.
I wonder if we miss the miracle sometimes. Do we miss it because we are so focused on what we want the miracle to look like that we can’t see the actual miracle?
I think we do.
I know I have.
Because the miracle that comes from having God so near during times that feel like they are going to crush you with pain, that instead of being destroyed you feel peace… it’s hard to swallow sometimes. We don’t want that to be our miracle. We want the miracle of life restored. We don’t want life to hurt so much. We don’t want babies to die, husbands to leave, people to hurt us…
But. If we never get the chance to experience God’s peace that passes all understanding in the midst of searing pain that we know should be killing us with it’s very intensity… how will we ever know God’s power in our lives. We won’t. We would have any need for it.
It’s in doing the impossible things in our lives that we can know He is a God of impossibilities…
As much as it hurts.
May we walk through this life, in awe of God’s power in the events that we feel are impossible. Giving Him glory & honor & praise for all things. Good & bad.
Pray for Trevor & Rachel.
Peace. Grace. Love. Hope. Restoration.
Pray God provides amazing memories of this child for them through the lens of my camera… I’ve never done anything like this before.
Pam
5 comments:
Been thinking and praying for these two so much. Thanks for the thoughts. So thankful they are getting this captured in picture...
I too have been praying non stop for these two. Thanks for your insight too, Pam. And I'm praying now for you as you photograph their daughter....
Powerful insights. Thanks for sharing.
While the miracle that I so desperately wanted this past year was to put my life in rewind ... to be able to forget the searing pain of all that had been done to me. But, instead, I got the miracle of walking closer to the Lord than I've ever walked. To feeling His arm around my shoulders each and every day. The miracle that I got was that my marriage survived its unimaginable crisis.
Praying for you today, as the Lord uses you in a powerful way. A friend of ours lost a baby this year, and a photographer came and did pictures. Those pictures are a treasured keepsake.
Hoping your week is BLESSED!
Laurel :)
you are doing an awesome job pam! our hearts are just so broken and confused now. I look at them and it just doesnt seem right or fair, but God's ways are perfect and there is a reason for everything... but Clay and Lahna were gonna play together and be good friends!! Just like Trevor and I are! it hurts. thanks for capturing their memories..these pictures are going to be a part of their life forever.
-Alyssa
Amen. And as I mama of a stillborn baby, I can tell you they will treasure your photos.
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