Comments on: The Little Details http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/ Uplifting, edifying, and enriching reading by and for Latter-day Saint Women Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Stephanie C http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6813 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:04:29 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6813 Thank you so much Cheryl. There is more to this story that maybe I will write about later. But my Grandmother's personal revelation did much to ease my troubled heart and mind and help answer some very deep questions I had at the time. Thank you so much Cheryl. There is more to this story that maybe I will write about later. But my Grandmother’s personal revelation did much to ease my troubled heart and mind and help answer some very deep questions I had at the time.

]]> by: Cheryl http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6810 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:43:40 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6810 Stephanie, thank you so much for this post. I cannot even imagine your heartache mixed with joy all at the same time --my heart goes out to you. It's so wonderful to know about where we go after this, isn't it? And I was moved beyond tears at your Grandmother's personal revelation....Thanks again for sharing this with all of us. Stephanie, thank you so much for this post. I cannot even imagine your heartache mixed with joy all at the same time –my heart goes out to you.
It’s so wonderful to know about where we go after this, isn’t it? And I was moved beyond tears at your Grandmother’s personal revelation….Thanks again for sharing this with all of us.

]]> by: Stephanie C http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6795 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:20:59 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6795 Julie- Thank you. This did build my faith, in even more personal ways that I have not been able to share with anyone yet but it reaffirmed by faith that God is aware of us even when we think we have forgotten Him. Naiah- I can not tell you how many times I thought about that during labor and while giving birth. I have never felt so close to death while giving birth and while it is often a scary place, it is also the most beautiful of experiences... especially knowing that my father was there, just on the other side of the veil...watching, participating. There is a time right after the baby is born just before he/she is breathing normally, still attached to the umbilical cord that is inside me, where the baby takes on an "other wordly" appearance - of being in two places at once. It is so amazing and being witness to that and knowing that she must have seen my father and witnessed angels with her brought me more peace and comfort than I can describe. Michelle- The tender mercies of the Lord indeed. I normally wouldn't have had a chance to talk to my Dad until the following Sunday had it not had been for my issues with the baby. There was something deeply personal I had wanted to discuss with my Dad the day before he died and I didn't call him because it was so late at night and I figured I could call him the next day or week instead. I assumed as we all do that we always have time to do something later. Oh what fools we are. Time is a perishable gift... something only the Lord can give to us, and what we do with our time is what matters most in this life. I won't have tomorrow to talk with my Dad. But I did have those few minutes to say goodbye to him... the last hour of his life on earth, unbeknownst to me at the time. I can not tell in words how deeply and profoundly that this has affected me in my relationships with EVERYONE in my life...and how this experience has shaped and changed me in many small little ways. Time is too precious to waste. I try not to put off until tomorrow what I can do today. I know too well that tomorrow never comes. Julie- Thank you. This did build my faith, in even more personal ways that I have not been able to share with anyone yet but it reaffirmed by faith that God is aware of us even when we think we have forgotten Him.

Naiah- I can not tell you how many times I thought about that during labor and while giving birth. I have never felt so close to death while giving birth and while it is often a scary place, it is also the most beautiful of experiences… especially knowing that my father was there, just on the other side of the veil…watching, participating. There is a time right after the baby is born just before he/she is breathing normally, still attached to the umbilical cord that is inside me, where the baby takes on an “other wordly” appearance - of being in two places at once. It is so amazing and being witness to that and knowing that she must have seen my father and witnessed angels with her brought me more peace and comfort than I can describe.

Michelle- The tender mercies of the Lord indeed. I normally wouldn’t have had a chance to talk to my Dad until the following Sunday had it not had been for my issues with the baby. There was something deeply personal I had wanted to discuss with my Dad the day before he died and I didn’t call him because it was so late at night and I figured I could call him the next day or week instead. I assumed as we all do that we always have time to do something later. Oh what fools we are. Time is a perishable gift… something only the Lord can give to us, and what we do with our time is what matters most in this life. I won’t have tomorrow to talk with my Dad. But I did have those few minutes to say goodbye to him… the last hour of his life on earth, unbeknownst to me at the time. I can not tell in words how deeply and profoundly that this has affected me in my relationships with EVERYONE in my life…and how this experience has shaped and changed me in many small little ways. Time is too precious to waste. I try not to put off until tomorrow what I can do today. I know too well that tomorrow never comes.

]]> by: Michelle http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6792 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:41:12 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6792 One of the "little details" I am so stunned about is that had you not had the amniotic fluid issues you probably woudln't have had the chance to talk with your dad that one last time. I am so touched that you would share this. Thank you for opening your heart in such a way. Hugs to you! One of the “little details” I am so stunned about is that had you not had the amniotic fluid issues you probably woudln’t have had the chance to talk with your dad that one last time.

I am so touched that you would share this. Thank you for opening your heart in such a way. Hugs to you!

]]> by: Naiah http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6790 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:59:25 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6790 "I reflected on the cycle of life and I was lifted up. " Beautiful. The hearts of the fathers to the children... “I reflected on the cycle of life and I was lifted up. ” Beautiful.

The hearts of the fathers to the children…

]]> by: Stephanie C http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6787 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:59:32 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6787 Thank you Roann. It still is hard to even read about or write about, but I am finding that writing about this is therapeutic in a way... and helps with healing. Thank you Roann. It still is hard to even read about or write about, but I am finding that writing about this is therapeutic in a way… and helps with healing.

]]> by: JulieP http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6786 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:09:58 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6786 What a faith-building story. Thank you for sharing your personal experience with us. What a faith-building story. Thank you for sharing your personal experience with us.

]]> by: RoAnn http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6785 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:00:10 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/10/26/the-little-details/#comment-6785 Stephanie, I'm so grateful that you were able to tell us about how you were sustained so remarkably in this incredibly difficult situation. What a beautiful example of the Lord's attention to your needs in the midst of what must have been a heart-breaking experience. I'm so glad you were able to be so accepting of the Lord's will, and that in consequence you were so richly blessed with peace and joy when your baby was born. Stephanie, I’m so grateful that you were able to tell us about how you were sustained so remarkably in this incredibly difficult situation. What a beautiful example of the Lord’s attention to your needs in the midst of what must have been a heart-breaking experience. I’m so glad you were able to be so accepting of the Lord’s will, and that in consequence you were so richly blessed with peace and joy when your baby was born.

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