I don’t know Regina except through stories from a friend. Both Kathy’s son and Regina have fought brain cancer. But Regina’s battle is almost over. Her family keeps a blog about this amazing 9-year-old. She’ll be 10 in three days…on the 19th. They report that Regina is currently on pain medications and is unresponsive, although peaceful.
Please, keep this little girl and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
Sometimes I am so frustrated because I don’t understand a God who would let this keep happening. I and other bereaved parents have certainly felt enough pain to last an eternity. So why make another parent go through this?
I attended a baby shower recently for a friend from Ghana. During one of the activities, we drew African sayings from a bag and then shared our thoughts about them. I don’t remember the exact words but the saying I pulled was “No one shows God to a child.”
My child knows God intimately now. My extended family consists of atheists and devout Christians. My son, who had no religious training, insisted that God exists. He talked about God quite a bit when he was alive. Is that God speaking through him?
Still, how do you explain a God who takes children from their parents? What reason could there be? Did we do something wrong? Are we bad people? That can’t be it because people who are cruel and violent to others have children who don’t die. People who are devoutly religious sometimes lose children.
The other day I got stuck behind a massive SUV with a stick-family decal on the back window. The decal showed six happy kids, and I couldn’t help but think why do they get six bouncy children while I struggled to have my three and then lost one?
Lots of questions and never any answers. I’m left only with a certainty that the right thing to do is to keep marching forward, try to be a good person, help others, and don’t allow bitterness or anger to destroy the gifts I’ve been given.
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