Well, it's been a while I actually started two different posts in the past month but both times never finished writing them for various reasons but I wanted to write down this evening so I don't forget about it.
In our journey through this loss of our sweet Elias. I have made it a point to keep in mind that the kids are going through this loss of their brother who they adored too. And with that in mind keeping my eyes open for when they might be dealing with the grieving too. They see Judah and I have our moments of tears and grieving sometimes and so far Josiah has had a few moments in the past few months were he is missing Elias or remembering him and the tears come but tonight it was Jaelle. This afternoon I finally got around to start working on memorizing scriptures with the kids, honestly it's been months and yesterday I felt a great urgency to start doing it again and not put it off at all. So this afternoon was actually really great after talking to Judah about where to start I picked Gen 1:1 and John 1:1-5 at the beginning so after working on those verses and talking about them a little bit we read from "the Beginning Reader's Bible" (any one with kids, grandkids, I really really recommend it I believe it's fairly new but it's the only beginner's bible I've come across that isn't a "story bible" but actually takes the scriptures and compiles them into an abridged version but just uses the scriptures to tell the stories and it's illustrated pretty good too!)
We read the first story about creation, worked on helping them to memorize what happened on what day and then Enoch asked how he was made, which then lead to us reading through Psalm 139 and talking about it about how God made us and formed us, how he knows ever single thing about us, what we do, what we think, when we do it, before we do it. How we can never hide from him and that he knows how long each of has to live that He knew how long my first baby living in me had, how many days that baby was going to live inside of me. How many days our friend's three babies had to live inside of her, how many days Elias had to live. He knew all those days and wrote them down in his book before anyone of them came to be. And that God in the beginning when he created the world, when he created man he also planned out and created each one of us.
And Jaelle my sweet girl, was weeping for her brother it was good, good to cry with her to let her know it good, it's okay and right to cry for him when we think of him and miss him.
Anyway nothing spectacular or profound happened it was just one of those moments of sincerity I am glad I didn't miss.
In our journey through this loss of our sweet Elias. I have made it a point to keep in mind that the kids are going through this loss of their brother who they adored too. And with that in mind keeping my eyes open for when they might be dealing with the grieving too. They see Judah and I have our moments of tears and grieving sometimes and so far Josiah has had a few moments in the past few months were he is missing Elias or remembering him and the tears come but tonight it was Jaelle. This afternoon I finally got around to start working on memorizing scriptures with the kids, honestly it's been months and yesterday I felt a great urgency to start doing it again and not put it off at all. So this afternoon was actually really great after talking to Judah about where to start I picked Gen 1:1 and John 1:1-5 at the beginning so after working on those verses and talking about them a little bit we read from "the Beginning Reader's Bible" (any one with kids, grandkids, I really really recommend it I believe it's fairly new but it's the only beginner's bible I've come across that isn't a "story bible" but actually takes the scriptures and compiles them into an abridged version but just uses the scriptures to tell the stories and it's illustrated pretty good too!)
We read the first story about creation, worked on helping them to memorize what happened on what day and then Enoch asked how he was made, which then lead to us reading through Psalm 139 and talking about it about how God made us and formed us, how he knows ever single thing about us, what we do, what we think, when we do it, before we do it. How we can never hide from him and that he knows how long each of has to live that He knew how long my first baby living in me had, how many days that baby was going to live inside of me. How many days our friend's three babies had to live inside of her, how many days Elias had to live. He knew all those days and wrote them down in his book before anyone of them came to be. And that God in the beginning when he created the world, when he created man he also planned out and created each one of us.
And Jaelle my sweet girl, was weeping for her brother it was good, good to cry with her to let her know it good, it's okay and right to cry for him when we think of him and miss him.
Anyway nothing spectacular or profound happened it was just one of those moments of sincerity I am glad I didn't miss.
