5 weeks post partum, a birth, and an anniversary...

"Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale? Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give Him advice or teach him? Has the Lord ever needed anyone’s advice? Does He need instruction about what is good? Did someone teach Him what is right or show Him the path of justice?"

~ Isaiah 40:12-14

Day 32: My little bit of happy - my new camera!!!!!!


Dear Caleb,

Yesterday marked 5 weeks since you were born. And yesterday your cousin Collette Marie was born. You and she were to have grown up side by side, cousins so close in age. When Sarah, Ian, and Collette are at play my mind will always think of the little boy who should be there in the mix of them. Especially when Ian tires of their girly activities and wishes for someone to have great boy adventures with.

Today is your Uncle Isaiah's birthday. Unlike with you we know the exact day that he died, for he died shortly before he was born. Two boys born into the same family, at relatively the same gestation so many years apart and for such very different reasons. February 13, 1986 rocked my world so hard it almost shattered me. And I was only 9 years old. That was my first in a series of lessons on the brevity and fragility of life.

Are there birthdays in Heaven? Somehow I doubt that. Eternal, glorified, bodies don't age. And time in Heaven is not as time is here. And yet I have to wonder what you all did up there today. Was there any kind of marking on this monumental day? The day that your Uncle Isaiah received his crown of life? But I suppose every day is a day of celebration - every day in Heaven commerates the arrival of more and more people.

"When we all... get to Heaven... what a day of rejoicing that will be..."

Love,
~ Mama