Two Years Yesterday

Yesterday was David's second heaven birthday. We celebrated and remembered with a family day. We took doughnuts, a birthday balloon, and blue hydrangeas out to David's grave. Then we went to the botanical gardens and enjoyed the beauty of God's creation. We finished up the day with homemade pizza and playing in the sprinkler, and took some time to look through David's scrapbook and his memory box and remember the joy and grief of his life.

This is not the way you anticipate spending your child's birthday. I'd rather have him here. I'd have loved to throw a fun party and celebrate him being two. I'd love to hear his cute little baby voice and watch him play. But those dreams are not to be. I have to trust the Lord has dreamed better ones, and that in His grand redemption plan all these sorrows will come undone. For one day death itself will work backwards.