Hope

Here's some fun with Kingston.

We are doing well and have been very busy!! :) We have had a difficult week but wanted to share it. We are still happy and just VERY grateful for our blessings!

We've been thinking about those that we love so much. We've had 2 losses within our families this past week. A stillborn baby boy and an Auntie... Our own daughter passed away on the 10th of this month last year and so much of that time has found it's way back into our minds and hearts. We have been remembering her as we have shed tears for her and our family members at this time.

But we have hope even in this heart ache. We feel joy even though at times it seems we have been robbed of it. The painting in this picture is one my brother did. It is a depiction of the Mother Mary holding the Christ Child. It is titled Hope. We have this in our home above a mantel.
This mantel holds pictures and depictions of our own hope. On it is a little saying, "When you have someone you love in Heaven, You have a little bit of Heaven in your home." We are reminded that we may again have our arms around Naimah. That my cousin that lost her baby will too. That our Auntie will be held and hold her family once again.We are thankful to have this Hope. But it becomes much more to us as we continue to learn about our Savior, Jesus Christ. It becomes knowledge, even unwavering.
He has made possible all that we hold dear. He has brought meaning to our marriage and love for another. He weeps with us because we ache for our own arms to be filled with Naimah's little hands and feet. He gave His own hands and feet to a cross that seemed to have Him bound. But He was loosed on the third day. He fulfills that Hope and gives us the knowledge of what may lie beyond for us. Oh how we love Him! Our goal is to reunite with not only Naimah, and our other loved ones beyond the grave, but to be embraced with His hands that gives us this very Hope.