Last week we celebrated Silas' seventh birthday. I realize that's not generally a milestone birthday, but it could have been a really horrible day for us. Honestly, the the whole month of June has been a little weird for me emotionally.
Ten months earlier Silas was dead, a drowning victim without a heartbeat. Let me just tell you that it's pretty surreal to see your husband doing chest compressions on your son, to think "I have two kids now" when you had three just a few minutes earlier, to explain to your questioning four year old why his brother isn't moving and what Daddy is doing to him.
Ari, Tim's niece who had just turned nine, died three weeks before Silas drowned. It was a freak accident, a horrible tragedy.
Why did one kid survive and the other die? Why did CPR work for one child and not the other? We'll never know. Life doesn't always make sense.
I'm just thankful that God gave Silas to us. Twice.
And I'm praying for Ari's parents and sister as they enter July, the month Ari was born and the month she died.
3 comments:
Wow! I didn't know that Silas had drowned! Isn't God good?!! I'm so glad that his had a happy ending! Happy Birthday, Silas!
In our house 7 is a big birthday - it's the perfect number in the bible...
Praying for you as you reflect on the year and for Ari's parents.
That gave me goosebumps when I read that. I did not know about Tim's niece. Sad for one family while happy for another, must feel so awful, especially in the same family.
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