Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day

I can't let today, October 15th, go by without acknowledging the multitudes of women, including myself, who have gone through the incredibly painful experience of losing a child... whether in pregnancy or after.  My thoughts and prayers are with all women tonight who are currently dealing with the fresh wounds of infant loss.  My heart also joins with many, many others across the globe who are remembering our babies who left us all too soon. 

I ask you to join me in remembering all babies born sleeping,

or whom we have carried but never met;

or those we have held but could not take home,

or the ones that came home but didn't stay...

and in raising awareness for those losses that are all too often left unacknowledged.

"Held" by Natalie Grant

Two months is too little
They let him go
They had no sudden healing
To think that providence
Would take a child from his mother
While she prays, is appalling

Who told us we'd be rescued
What has changed and
Why should we be saved from nightmares
We're asking why this happens to us
Who have died to live, it's unfair

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was that when everything fell
We'd be held

This hand is bitterness
We want to taste it and
Let the hatred numb our sorrows
The wise hand opens slowly
To lilies of the valley and tomorrow

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was that when everything fell
We'd be held

If hope is born of suffering
If this is only the beginning
Can we not wait, for one hour
Watching for our savior

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was that when everything fell
We'd be held