Saturday, December 01, 2007

For Melissa

One week before Gabe was born, my college roommate's sister gave birth to a baby girl. Janey was born with a condition called anencephaly. She only lived for an hour but it was a precious life. Melissa has shown me so much about faith and strength throughout this ordeal. I have prayed for her continually since April since she found out about sweet Janey. I cannot begin to imagine the pain she is feeling. Melissa, you will never know the impact you have made on me and Ty. We wish you the best of holiday seasons and pray for continued peace as you remember your beautiful Janey. I found this video recently and the song brought me to tears as I listened to the lyrics. Melissa, I know this is not Janey, but the words to this song led me to share this with you.

FYI: The video is about Copeland Farley who was born with Trisomy-18.

2 comments:

tleaf10 said...

Hey Kyla ... thanks for writing this. It meant so much to me. I am sitting here crying. Not so much sad, as happy that people think of Janey. I think of her every day and some days, all day. I love seeing pictures of Gabe because I think of how big Janey would be. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

thank you Kyla. I haven't watched the video yet, but I will. Thank you for remembering Janey. We all miss her so much but know she is watching us everyday.

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