Happy Birthday My Beloved Shelby Hope

Tomorrow you would have been 4 years old. As I sit here with Morgan by my side I am getting a lump in my throat and when I think back to your birth and death I feel like the wind has been knocked out of me a little. When people ask me how many children I have I always tell them that I have had 2 and that you are in heaven with Jesus. I will see you again someday in the blink of an eye. You will always be bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.

Thank you Jesus for revealing to me that you were not crying over Lazarus when you wept for he was in heaven. You were crying for the Mary's and Martha's of this world who are left to grieve the loss of their loved ones. You weep over us because death was never the way. You set eternity in our hearts. Thank you for my sweet first born even if it seems so distant she will have always been my first child...even if no one remembers but me and You. Thank you for the hope I have in You Jesus.


1 Corinthians 15:54-56
54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."[ 55"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.


2 Samuel 12:23
23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."

Matthew 19:14
14Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."