tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post8964254834951929636..comments2023-10-17T04:39:04.912-04:00Comments on lattes & rainy days: so much to saykirstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789771023962578029noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-67258293085073360972010-07-01T20:06:31.153-04:002010-07-01T20:06:31.153-04:00It's only natural to mourn the loss of the lif...It's only natural to mourn the loss of the life you thought you'd have. The life you will have with Ewan will be different than you thought it would be and I can't imagine that it would be a perfectly smooth transition from one expected reality to the next.<br /><br />Thinking about your family and praying for all of you...tracey.becker1@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606831315390042198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-60712842434344233302010-06-09T22:59:16.716-04:002010-06-09T22:59:16.716-04:00Hello, my friend.
I'm not sure what happened...Hello, my friend. <br /><br />I'm not sure what happened on your last post ... I wrote a comment but it doesn't seem to have appeared. I hope you received the love I sent to you there. <br /><br />And now, here. <br /><br />I've always loved the way you fully inhabit your experiences. I was in the car driving the other morning and thinking about you in this respect. I was thinking about your Job experience ... how the warrior princesses descended on you in Bellingham to rally and love you ... and how fully you embraced loving and being loved by James when God brought you two together. <br /><br />You have always fully embodied all of life's experiences and been unafraid to share the truth of those experiences here. <br /><br />I love that about you. It gives others permission to do the same ... in the valleys and on the heights. <br /><br />So it makes sense to me that you would be sharing here what you have. For one of the most intimate experiences in all of life, and for one of the greatest imaginable loves possible in the world, and for something to be happening in the midst of it that is so unexpected and painful ... it just makes sense that you would be feeling all the lows and highs that you are and that you would come here to spill about it all. <br /><br />I'm glad you do this. <br /><br />I love you.christiannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278757714101308785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-49214537731575272792010-06-09T20:02:43.673-04:002010-06-09T20:02:43.673-04:00Kirsten,
I read this the other day,
and now tonigh...Kirsten,<br />I read this the other day,<br />and now tonight , the posts linked up in your header.<br />the ultrasound picture is just radiant love.<br /><br />do you know how you bless. <br /><br />I pray for your Ewan, for everyone and everything that comes into his life every second he is held in your womb, and for every second when the world is honoured with knowing and loving him.<br /><br /><br />When I was pregnant with my unexpected fifth and had to go for an amnio... I remember feeling so so shattered , even in the unknown. And bitter. It still sits in the cracks of my heart and mind. This doubt. This selfishness. This fear. <br />You are such an inspiration. <br /><br />may you be held in His love in all of your moments. In the all of the fears and unknowing.<br /><br />love to you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924061349390319473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-63109566146341743372010-06-08T16:40:05.696-04:002010-06-08T16:40:05.696-04:00Your words speak wisdom beyond years. You're n...Your words speak wisdom beyond years. You're not blindly optimistic, and you're not letting the "what ifs" drag you down into despair. You are exactly where you need to be right now.<br /><br />Keep holding strong, and the "prayer blanket" of everybody here (vocal and unvocal) will continue to wrap you, James, and Ewan with love and support.<br /><br />[:: Sean ::]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-24380461795841838412010-06-08T12:54:16.368-04:002010-06-08T12:54:16.368-04:00I stumbled across your blog and I have been follow...I stumbled across your blog and I have been following silently. I just wanted to add that I am praying for you.Tiffanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779440042714742035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-74773659591806511282010-06-08T12:54:16.367-04:002010-06-08T12:54:16.367-04:00I stumbled across your blog and I have been follow...I stumbled across your blog and I have been following silently. I just wanted to add that I am praying for you.Tiffanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779440042714742035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-66890436388798322242010-06-08T11:09:53.722-04:002010-06-08T11:09:53.722-04:00Loving you today.
When I was in seminary, one of ...Loving you today.<br /><br />When I was in seminary, one of my profs talked a lot about "sitting in the weeds" and letting others sit in the weeds with us. I love that you're letting us all, even inviting us, to come and sit in your tangled, weedy place right now. It's hard--weeds are so ugly and we want to pick them instead of sit in them and let it be. But the weeds are also true--the truth of our hearts and our lives. So I'll sit with you as long as you need people here.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05220448315369951650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-10676674786607787812010-06-08T10:03:38.377-04:002010-06-08T10:03:38.377-04:00Thank you all again for your words, and for your p...Thank you all again for your words, and for your prayers. I mean it -- your words are such tremendous comfort. I can't imagine doing this alone -- I wouldn't make it. I just wouldn't.<br /><br />Nadine, Shay ... I love you.<br /><br />And yes,<b>Kelly</b>, I do believe congratulations are most appropriate. Something really wonderful is happening here.<br /><br /><b>Tea</b>, I can completely understand what it is to relate to someone else is going through via the lens of your own experience. I didn't take any of what you said with the least bit of offense -- on the contrary, I can appreciate that you have been through a similar scary transition that left you feeling much the same way that we are right now. I thank you for your empathy.<br /><br /><b>Devin</b>, ugh ... you too? I'm finding that this sort of mid-pregnancy switch isn't at all uncommon.<br /><br /><b>Terri</b> Thank you for being you and for assuring me that no matter how bad this gets, you won't leave me hanging. <i>Oooh ... yeah, that Kirsten girl? She used to be kewl and then she LOST IT</i>. And thanks for the poem. It fits.<br /><br /><b>Rebecca</b> Many thanks and much love to you, my friend. I wish my arms could reach to Singapore!!kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09789771023962578029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-57626690047236454462010-06-08T01:38:45.613-04:002010-06-08T01:38:45.613-04:00Loving you and Ewan, and praying for you both. . ....Loving you and Ewan, and praying for you both. . . all the way from Singapore! =)Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170444211550150607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-37086869347872173712010-06-08T01:33:42.064-04:002010-06-08T01:33:42.064-04:00i wish i had the just-right words. you already hav...i wish i had the just-right words. you already have figured out that those words don't exist.<br /><br />but i can keep you company (to whatever extent that's possible from so far away) and i can let you know that it doesn't matter to me how angry or bitter or withdrawn or whatever else you may become. i won't look away. i'll keep listening. and i won't try to make myself more comfortable at your expense. <br /><br />have you ever read any of jane kenyon's poetry? i was reading it tonight and i thought of you. it's probably a bit much to share this with you in your comments section, but who ever said i had any common sense?<br /><br />Let Evening Come<br /><br />Let the light of late afternoon<br />shine through chinks in the barn, moving<br />up the bales as the sun moves down.<br /><br />Let the cricket take up chafing<br />as a woman takes up her needles<br />and her yarn. Let evening come.<br /><br />Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned<br />in long grass. Let the stars appear<br />and the moon disclose her silver horn.<br /><br />Let the fox go back to its sandy den.<br />Let the wind die down. Let the shed<br />go black inside. Let evening come.<br /><br />To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop<br />in the oats, to the air in the lung<br />let evening come.<br /><br />Let it come, as it will, and don't<br />be afraid. God does not leave us<br />comfortless, so let evening come.terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08284855262535595879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-7017938105772486112010-06-07T22:48:05.299-04:002010-06-07T22:48:05.299-04:00I hope my comment didn't sound like I meant I ...I hope my comment didn't sound like I meant I knew exactly what you're feeling. I know I don't. I just meant I could kind of identify. ..Sorry.Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06118627653300483708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-84256346995575861362010-06-07T22:26:26.857-04:002010-06-07T22:26:26.857-04:00My wife and I had difficulty conceiving, but when ...My wife and I had difficulty conceiving, but when we did, we were thrilled. We were going to a birthing center with midwives, but then when they tried to find the heartbeat they couldn't, and so we had to go to a regular ob/gyn, who did an ultrasound and told us the devastating news: our baby had "quit growing" at about 6 weeks and had died. The miscarriage was traumatic and my wife had to be rushed to the hospital. Needless to say, our dreams of a pleasant birth of our healthy baby at the birthing center with midwives we knew didn't happen.<br /><br />My wife definitely understands the loss of having to switch to doctors/hospitals--you are in our prayers!Devin Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13706894435441471620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-87978040120590403332010-06-07T22:16:46.009-04:002010-06-07T22:16:46.009-04:00i love your real story, all the ups and downs of i...i love your real story, all the ups and downs of it. keep living. this is so beautiful; He is doing something so incredible in you.<br /><br />is it okay for me to be so excited for you, to congratulate you? i'm so amazed...Kelly Sauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138861838948184728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-62462566081643157252010-06-07T22:00:12.432-04:002010-06-07T22:00:12.432-04:00When we were in the adoption process our family co...When we were in the adoption process our family coordinator changed just a few months before we were matched with our son. It was so hard for us. We went from feeling like we were known and cared for, to feeling like a file in a stack of papers. I know the situations are very different, but I can understand your feelings about having to change from your midwives to other doctors - that is a hard change. I'm keeping you in my prayers.<br />*with love*Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06118627653300483708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-52739983374537178692010-06-07T21:13:28.502-04:002010-06-07T21:13:28.502-04:00wow...I am praying for you...thank you for sharing...wow...I am praying for you...thank you for sharing your heart and your struggles with us! you are loved!Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684136436505856179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064478678164369045.post-10206899853307002532010-06-07T20:59:42.222-04:002010-06-07T20:59:42.222-04:00Praying for you, friend! Much love!Praying for you, friend! Much love!Nadinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05868417027680286193noreply@blogger.com