A New Loss

God took our little rose back up to Heaven. He loaned her to us for such a short time. The day we knew she was given to us was our darkest time since everything came out, our darkest time until we knew of her presence. She brought her mommy and daddy such joy in the two weeks that we were priviledged to love her, and maybe that's why she was given to us: to be a ray of sunshine through the seemingly endless shower of tears. We had asked God for a sign and maybe that was all God ever intended for her to be for us. We don't know. We just know that we love her, miss her, and hope that we can someday see her in heaven.

We know that she is in a better home now than we ever could have given her, and are grateful that her tiny soul never knew sin. Her pure, sweet, innocence will now always be protected in God's garden of perfect souls, and she has her Aunt Erin to care for her now that her mommy and daddy no longer can.

Every evening in our prayers we pray that God will claim our children before they lose salvation. We can't be angry with Him now that He has lovingly granted our request. We will miss her, but are grateful for the few short weeks that we benefited by her presence in our lives.

All for God.