We have started this amazing tradition of getting together with our NICU friends at least once a year. The past few years we have missed out on one of the families but this year they were able to come and it just completed the group.
It's been 5 years since Bear was born. The day still brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. Mostly because I see how God brought beauty from the ashes. He took a very broken couple, who believed the worlds lies and who were living for the world and transformed them into the couple we are now. He used the birth of Bear to completely change us in ways I still am so thankful for that I have a hard time talking about it.
This girl though, she is hard to parent. She is stubborn, strong willed and beyond sassy. There are days I don't know what to do with her but then I remember how special she is. I remember that God has something so special for her in this life. So I try to hold on to that when she makes me lose my hair. I hold on to the fact that I am tasked with training this little Bear up to be a disciple of Christ. We know His plans for her are big so we will preserve raising her.
Watching her play with the other 4 kids just made me so happy. To know that these kids never see each other, maybe once a year but they have this unspoken bond. They are instant friends and laugh and giggle together so hard that you just smile watching it. I will forever be grateful that God put us in the NICU that month. I wouldn't change a thing about that time. Every single detail would be exactly the same. Because I have learned that God always brings beauty from the ashes. As long as you are willing to look and to wait for it, He always delivers.
The 5 NICUteers. :)
Watch out world.... they start Kindergarten this fall!
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