In Memory of an Angel: July 2008

Monday, July 14, 2008

A Tender Moment of Confirmation with Taryn

I was blessed to be pregnant again just 6 short months following DeLanee's death. Taryn joined our family in May, 2005. She and DeLanee would be just 16 months apart. I will forever remember my sweetest moment with Taryn. When she was just a few weeks old (too young to smile on cue yet), I was nursing her in the middle of the night. When she was finished, she was staring up at me with these serious dark eyes. She always seemed so serious - in fact, I was beginning to wonder if she would always take life so seriously. (The picture below is a pretty accurate picture of what her face always looked like.)

It was then that I began to talk to her about her sister. The second I mentioned the name "DeLanee", her face absolutely lit up! A smile spread across her face and her eyes twinkled! I knew that the memory of her sister had not yet left her mind and the veil, although thin, had not yet been lifted. I realized I was rocking an angel sent to me straight from heaven where she had lived and just said goodbye to her sister. I couldn't help the tears that flowed. I felt so very blessed for Taryn and her little way of telling me what I believe is true, that our Savior and DeLanee live again and send they're love to me through her confirming smile.

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"The Sweetest Angel"

There in the Ivory Palaces the sweetest angel stood.
Her dark hair hung long and fair, her smile was kind and good.
“Dear sister,” she said, in a sweet, soft voice, “My task on earth I know, I’m to go as a child and remain as a child, to test the hearts below.

“Will you give me birth, and cherish me, and do what mothers do? And care for me through joy and tears, ‘til my work on earth is through?” The sister sadly turned away, “Please ask another, dear. Our family circle is quite complete, one more we could not bear”

“Sister, dear sister, may I come to you? Do you have room for me in your heart?” But that sister turned quickly away again, and the tears began to start. “I could not bear the sorrow you’d bring,” she said, in a whispered way. “There’s so much sorrow to a handicapped child,” and she sadly turned away.

“Dear sister, kind sister, please stop a bit, and tell me if you could bear to have me come to your home to stay, your circle of love to share?” The sweetest angel stood trembling then and wondered with a troubled soul, was there a family anywhere who would help her reach her goal?

And so she went from one to another, trying to find herself a mother. “Dear sister,” she cried to one drawing near, surrounded by a laughing throng, “would you let me come and join with you? I may not stay too long”

The mother’s arms were open wide, and with a smiling face,
She gathered the sweetest angel up, into a close embrace.
“Of course you may come to us,” she said, and she kissed the tear-streaked face. This one will be your brother on earth, come, dear, you have found your place.”

So, out of the Ivory Palace the sweetest angel came,
to dwell with her earthly family here, to claim a place and a name. “Oh, DeLanee, dear, we love you so, for our Savior said it should be: Inasmuch as ye loved the least of these, ye have shown your love to me.”

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Monday, July 14, 2008

A Tender Moment of Confirmation with Taryn

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