Our family is experiencing life from death in more than one way during this Holy Week! This day of remembering the loss of our first child rarely visits us during Holy Week. 6 years ago today we miscarried our first baby. As the grieving process took hold of me and shook me so hard to brokenness I from that moment chose to NEVER live life the same way any more. I was so caught up in the doing and not BEING...a believer and follower of Jesus. I embraced Jesus as He embraced me in a whole new way that allowed me to see a new side of His beauty and grace.
Life from death? In brokenness of our sin and sin in others around us we are offered life. We are offered a new life, a restored life not just a little bit here and there but COMPLETE restoration and new life that comes from the Father. He gave His one and only Son as a sacrifice for our sins (in place of a lamb) that whoever believes (here is where our choice comes in...to choose to believe) in Him WILL NOT PERISH but have everlasting life! -John 3:16
A life restored! A new life in Him for eternity! A new life not just for later but for now that we can experience here, with others and to others! I want and have chosen that for my life and hope you will too!
God has blessed our family with our oldest, Nataleigh. She was conceived 5 months after we miscarried. She was a completely normal, healthy pregnancy and now we have Mia, almost three years old and one due in September! Jesus GIVES us life from death and Nataleigh, Mia and this new baby are reflections of that!
He calls us from death to life to be made new and is the ultimate sacrifice for ALL sin!
All Sons and Daughters beautifully sums this up!
"There was a day we held our breath
And felt the sting of bitter death
When all our hopes were buried in the grave
Our eyes awake our hearts were torn
Between our faith and what we knew
Before our king was buried in the grave
And grace was in the tension
Of everything we've lost
Standing empty handed
Shattered by the cross
All we had
All we had
Was a promise like a thread
Holding us keeping us
Oh from fraying at the edge
All we knew
All we knew
Was you said you'd come again
You'd rise up from the dead
There was a day we looked for proof
That you had risen from the tomb
And all our doubts began to roll away
We touched the scars upon your hands
You kept your word
Oh son of man
You buried death by taking on the grave
You came here to save us
Cuz everything was lost
No longer empty handed
Clinging to the cross
All we had
All we had
Was a promise like a thread
Holding us
Keeping us
From fraying at the edge
All we knew
All we knew
Was you said you'd come again
You'd rise up from the dead
IT IS WON!!!!
IT IS DONE!!!!
All we have
All we have
Is the promise like a thread
Holding us keeping us
Oh from fraying at the edge
All we know
All we know
Is you said you'd come again
You rose up from the dead"
