Wow!

I had the opportunity to meet with an amazing woman today. After we lost Ethan, our pastor gave her my contact information and we set up a time to meet. Here comes the whammer! She has been pregnant 17 times with 10 miscarriages and 7 living children. Yes, I typed 17. Who can imagine the hurt and struggle this woman and her husband have endured? Yet she sat across from me sharing the love that she knows God has for her. She shared the cross she has endured and how her family has come out stronger, more in love and more faithful and trusting on the other side of all the hurt. She did tear up, but it has not consumed her life. She has moved on, yet has not forgotten. She has accepted her cross. Ten of her children are already with the Heavenly Father, the best Father there is and when she gets to Heaven, she is going to have more little people (or whatever form we will take) surrounding her. That is amazing!