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Baby Eulogy Essay

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Dear Baby, A thousand questions flooded my mind that difficult Friday morning. As I ran my fingers through your hair and kissed you good bye, I wondered: Why? Why? Why? How can this happen? How could we be asked to endure such pain again? How could such a beautiful baby be taken from us? and? Why didn?t we have more time? It took a while for me to stop thinking about us or should I say me and start thinking about you, but once I did it is the last question that I pondered longest. "Why didn't we have more time?" I wanted to understand so I went to the dictionary and found that Webster?s had no less than 29 definitions for this tiny word, time. I looked on-line and found self help books that said I could manage …show more content…

It didn?t take me long to figure out that we do not define time, it is given. All we can do is make the most of what we have and making the most of it will not be measured in the piles of dirt we accumulate. Rather, our accomplishments will be measured by the impact we have had on others. Kali, you have been more successful than I could ever hope to be. How do you ask? You see you have helped us all live out one of our Lord?s greatest commandment: ?I give you a new commandment: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another? John 13, 34 You and I have seen it, felt it, and heard it before and during these grief stricken days: ? I saw it in your Daddy as he pride fully told me you were on the way and I want you to know it made your uncle laugh ? You heard it nightly when Mommy and Daddy prayed with you and read about loving their ?Little Nut Brown? right up to the moon and back. ? We both saw it Mommy?s eyes as she gazed upon your pretty little face and tried to decide who you looked like. ? I felt it in the hugs I gave and received from people I have never hugged before. ? In the hugs from those I love the most, I felt it squeeze a little tighter. ? It was in the eye contact and a nod of the head between two uncles named John ? Silent, but obvious in the firm grip of Grandpa?s hand ? I saw it in your both of your Grandmother?s eyes as they wished they could take away their children?s pain ? It was

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