Thankfulness

I am combining Word Filled Wednesday with Thankful Thursday today with a verse I would like to share to explain why I am so thankful.

Romans 8:28 King James Version
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.

Why this verse. It is not a Thanksgiving verse, but for me and a friend it created two beautiful young adults. To begin, 33 years ago on November 22, 1974 a beautiful girl was born to John and Joyce at 11:30 P.M. in Jasper County Hospital Indiana. Her name was Lynn Marie and weighed 6lb 7oz. and was 20 inches long with a head of brown hair and the fore head of her Grandfather Poisel.(this description is from memory since we do not have any pictures of her) Then on November 30, 1974 at around 8:00 P.M. she died and from the atrophy it was determined it was SIDS. (Today in 2007 it is still not know why this kind of death happens.) This began for me 11 years of HELL. I was angry at God for taking a child I had waited for over 5 years. Then I felt guilty that I might have killed her. Then through many wonderful individuals I began to heal, they listened and answered questions. God did give me 2 beautiful, intelligent, humble, hardworking, and simply wonderful girls who were born in 1979 and 1980. These two were part of the healing that was provided by a wonderful God who loves His children.

God gave me the most understanding man to marry. John put his grief in the back ground to take care of me and lift me up hourly, then daily, then weekly, then monthly, and finally yearly until I could heal and come back to the loving arms of God. I love God most for giving me this man.

On a beautiful June Saturday in 1979 a friend and I were talking on her back porch step as her husband and mine were working on a tractor. About 6 months before this conversation she had lost a baby of 5 months to a heart problem. When this son was born, she was told by her Dr. that she would be unable to have any more children. She had 2 older sons so she was resigned to what the Dr. had to say. God is so good. He does make something that is bad work together for good. During this conversation I suggested that she find a different Dr. and explain everything and see what he might have to say. Well, from that conversation 2 children have been born to their family, a boy and a girl. The boy was born 2 weeks after my youngest and they have been friends for along time.

When a birthday is celebrated on a Sunday or a holiday it is to me more special. So tomorrow I will be celebrating Thanksgiving in Michigan with my two daughters and rejoicing and remembering 33 years ago and praise God for his arms lifting me up and healing my heart and giving me 22 years of happiness and wonderful memories of a daughter I was privileged to hold for 8 glorious days. There may be tears, but they will be of joy not sadness.

So you see why Romans 8:28 is a Thanksgiving verse. For anyone grieving a child, healing comes and the memories are always there. Know that God cries along with you and smiles when you smile and laughs when you laugh. This is the first time I have been able to write about Lynn and what her birth and death has done in my life. To find God again has brought me to a time in my life that I can hear Him and thank Him for his patiences to wait on me to come back into His loving arms. Please have the most beutiful and enjoyable Thansgiving of November 22, 2007.