Heartbreaking News

A local family I've never met. They are friends of one my MOPS moms...

A child that has gone to be with Jesus. A heartbreaking story that you can read on your own by visiting the family blog site.

If you read in the blog noted below, Cora's mother, Jess, says how so many of the other children from the PICU have gone home; that there is just one other child in the PICU left, besides her Cora. And she says, "We want it to be our turn to go home." She did. She went home...and her only child went home as well - to be with Jesus in Heaven.

http://www.themcclenahans.blogspot.com/

Tragic.

Held
sung by Natalie Grant.
Two months is too little.
They let him go.
They had no sudden healing.
To think that providence would take a child from his mother while she prays is appalling.
Who told us we’d be rescued?
What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?
We’re asking why this happens to us who have died to live?
It’s unfair.

Chorus:
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was when everything fell we’d be held.

This hand is bitterness.
We want to taste it, let the hatred NUMB our sorrow.
The wise hands opens slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow.

(Chorus)
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was when everything fell we’d be held.

Bridge:
If hope is born of suffering.
If this is only the beginning.
Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?

(Chorus)
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was when everything fell we’d be held.

Please pray for Cora's mom and dad as they deal with this tragic event.