Saturday, August 9, 2008

ALL FOR THE GLORY!!!!

Well, many of you know that last Saturday, August 2nd, we delivered baby Laden. He lived for about 2 hours before he passed away. He was a cute little thing weighing 2 lbs and 2 oz. He was about 13 inches long. We got to hold him and love on him. We want nothing more than to use this experience that we've gone thru for the Glory of God. It's hard at times, however, we still want nothing more than God's Glory to shine thru us during all of this. We knew that Laden would probably not live due to the outcomes of all of the ultrasounds that we had. God has instilled peace in our hearts.

We had what we intended to be a small graveside service on August 8th to lay our sweet baby to rest. We were overwhelmed by the amount of people that came to show their support of us and to lift us up and surround us with comfort and hope. We appreciate everyone coming out and supporting us thru this difficult time. It was a beautiful day and we felt totally surrounded by everyone's love. Thank you to everyone who came to support us.

We then had a wonderful time of fellowship with friends and family as our wonderful church prepared lunch for us. We have been blessed in so many ways thru all of this. We have enough food at our house right now to feed an army I think. So if you're reading this and you brought us some food, I want to say thank you right now. We feel the love of God through all of this.

Well, that's about all for now. I just wanted to give an update in case there was someone who reads this who hadn't heard the latest update on us.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Carl and I are sorry that we couldn't be there with you and your family. You were in our thoughts and prayers, and will continue to be. Please know that we love you and miss you.

April & Carl Amundson

Anonymous said...

We must say that God is watching over you all. I know because the both of you for more prepared for the out come of what happened than I. You all are always in our thoughts & prayers. We are so very proud of you guys.
Dad & Pam

Anonymous said...

Hi Guys. We want you to know we are praying for you. What a beautiful Christian example you are. May God continue to strengthen and hold you. Psalm 139:7-12

Love,
Will and Dacia Hand