I have two lost daughters.
Their names are Jasmine and Lily, and I look forward to when I will meet them in Heaven. To remember them we keep two paintings I made on our mantle.
I was decorating the mantle for fall a few days ago and I stood there looking at those paintings and thinking of my girls. My heart ached to know them as it does whenever I think of them.
God asked me, “What do you say about your girls?”
I answered by reading the words I had painted so carefully.
Forever remembered
Cherished
Treasured
For this child I prayed
Tiny Princess
Beloved
Precious Daughter
Wanted
So Loved
He said to me,
“I have many lost daughters.
I know every one of their names and I long for them. To remember them I have engraved them on the palms of My hands.
I think of them always and My heart aches to know them and be known by them. When I look at them I don’t see who they are, but who I created them to be.
Everything you say about your lost daughters:
Forever remembered
Cherished
Treasured
For this child I prayed
Tiny Princess
Beloved
Precious Daughter
Wanted
So Loved
That is what I say about mine too…”
Beautiful
Melissa,
While I do not know the pain of miscarriage, I walked through it with my best friend. I also watched my sister walk through the battle of a rare form of breast cancer with her 27-year-old daughter that ultimately took her home to Jesus a year ago. I've seen loss through the eyes of two mothers — one before she could hold her child and one who never got to see her own daughter live the reality of becoming a mother herself.
But this I do understand: the Power that is in a God spoken Word. This semester I am walking through both Prophetic Training and Intermediate Freedom Training, almost simultaneously. Both require one thing: that we tune our ears to God's heartbeat and listen.
Thank you for listening.
Beautiful!
beautiful word!
Wonderfully simple yet poweful.