When You Lose a Child
No parent should ever have to lose a child. This goes especially for young kids. But sometimes, things happen, and no matter how we try to avoid it there times when you just cannot change the course of events.
October of last year, my wife and I lost our baby boy to SIDS. We had just recently commemorated his first death anniversary. Looking back at the year so far, we realize that it has been full of blessings as well as sorrows.
It’s difficult to cope. The pain never goes away. You just get used to it. No matter how you try to cope, you would have to face the truth.
Some would offer advice, but trust me–it’s not as easy as one, two, three. It never is.
My wife and I believe that all this has a purpose. Our loss should not be for naught. And we have learned a lot from this experience.
This experience has humbled us greatly. But it has taught us to value life more. It has taught us to value our family more. And it has taught us to value our time more. We are born to this world naked and with empty hands. But God gives us gifts so that we may create and do good things. We have but limited time to accomplish this—some of us have more, while some less. Therefore the time to act is now because you never know when your time is up.
In a way, we are perhaps more experienced parents than ever before. Probably even more than other parents out there, even my own.
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