Anyone who has mourned a child can tell you that it is a special feeling. It is something you cannot explain to someone who has not experienced it.
Keith and I have been following a Facebook Page called One Love For 80.
His mother is from the next town over and at least one of our friends knows her.
I am not going into Aiden's history, because you can see that for yourself if you want. (Aiden's nickname is "80".)
What I want to tell you is this: We never stop learning.
Aiden's Mother made a beautiful comment the other day about how if 80 does go to Heaven, she will still be his Mom.
That really struck me!
I had two children, many years ago: they would be in their 40s now. Over the years, I have struggled to try to know children but I never really felt comfortable with them.
I was a Mother, but my children died: Robbie at 3-1/2 weeks and Carrie Jane at 6-1/2 months.
So, when I realized what 80's Mother said, I started to process these old losses to realize that I AM A MOTHER.
Because I believe and especially because I have read books on people who were clinically dead and came back to relate their experiences in Heaven . . . now I believe that I will see my children again.
And . . . I am starting to realize that I am Robbie and Carrie Jane's mother.
What we have once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -Helen Keller
10 years ago
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