The Ties that Bind

So much for goal setting. The object was to post everyday, but then again, we all fall down sometimes and can't always post in the most timely of manner.

I realized the other day, after taking sometime to catch up on a popular social networking site, that a sweet friend had lost her sweet, newborn baby daughter. No words can describe her pain, and honestly in that situation, are there any words that can describe any pain that unmeasurable?

We each carry with us own own joy and our own sorrow. Both our incredibly and uniquely ours alone. How we deal with both and keep them in balance for what will define us in the end as the type of human being we chose to become in our lives and in the lives of those that surround us.

Lord knows, I know my own sorrow, moreover my joy at times.  I do know the joy as well, and I know that the people that come through us, and yes, I meant through us, throughout our lives serve their purpose in the places they hold. Some stay dear, and hold onto the spot they so carefully found and carved out to be their own in our souls, while others pass through and leave what they needed to as they do, and hopefully iin their journey, they have found what they needed in us.

Several years ago now, I came across a group of women that have found a spot in my soul, and though we do not speak to one another in a conventional manner, or even all that often, their is a binding I have found with these women that is unique and timeless and has always managed to transverse the space/time continuum. For it is this gift of that that I feel my dear friends pain, and hope that she knows, as I always have, that her losses and her joys will forever be shared.

May you always know that baby C was one of the luckiest little girls ever to be born to such a fantastic family and most especially mother.