Posted by Gena in General | 6 Comments
Praying for Shellie and her family!
Not long ago, I got the pleasure of working with Shellie and getting to know her. I was incredibly grateful to her and was so amazed at her generosity. I am no big wig on here at all but she reached out without even asking her! That’s the kind of person that Shellie is! I feel so blessed that I got to feel that generosity first hand.
Yesterday I was tweeting with Shellie and laughing about chickens. She was sharing pictures of her house beautifully decorated for Christmas and talking about buying ornaments. All normal stuff! Then an hour later I came back to my computer to find a tweet asking for prayers for her 2 year old son. My heart stopped. I prayed to God but I couldn’t believe anything could be wrong. It had to be okay. It just had to be!
Then I read the tweet that broke my heart. Shellie’s son passed away. Less than 2 weeks before Christmas, a mother lost her child! Siblings lost their brother! We lost a friend. The death of a child is so unbelievably painful that unless you have lived through it, you will NEVER understand. Holding your child, watching your child grow. Making plans for this child’s future and then within seconds it’s all gone!
I feel Shellie’s pain cutting through my heart. I have been in almost the same spot as she is in right now. It’s not easy waking up everyday knowing that you will never see your child’s smile again or hear their laughter. This is something no parent should ever have to live through.
For those interested in helping Shellie and her family, remember that right now she needs a lot of prayers. We are waiting on confirmation on how to help in other ways. If you’d like to send her a card, I will be adding that address on this post. I will change the title to UPDATED so you will know. Even if you didn’t know her, please feel free to send her a card just to say your thinking of her and her family. It will mean the world to her!
I am also sharing this video. It is the song that we played at my daughter’s funeral. It is something that speaks VOLUMES. One more day would never be enough!
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Beautiful post Gena. I am praying for Shellie. Praying that God brings her comfort
.-= Annie´s last blog ..Hug your Kids tight =-.
Oh, there are so many tears. I am so sorry for Shellie’s loss, and so sorry to just now be learning of yours. This is the beautiful side of social networking. This is the human touch sparked over the internet. This is the positive we should focus on.
.-= Jill @BabyRabies´s last blog ..How I gave birth to my second marathon =-.
many prayers. Thats the song that was playing when we delivered blakes twin.
.-= sarah @bakenate´s last blog ..Holiday Fun Facts =-.
That video made me cry again. That has been happening all day.
I remember reading your discussion with her about chickens, then a little while later, Trisha IM’d me and told me what happened and I looked at Twitter and right above the chickens in my “Momdot” group column in Tweetdeck was Shellies Tweet to pray…
I remember thinking how quickly something so benign can turn to tragedy…I will never forget those damn chickens….
.-= Kim @ What’s That Smell?´s last blog ..A parent’s worst nightmare… =-.
Kim I know! I will remember just laughing with Shellie about Stupid freaking chickens! I want that back! I want to Tweet about stupid things again!
(((hugs))) to you Gena! And (((hugs))) to Shellie! Love you both!
.-= Stefanie´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday – Bryson Ross =-.