Your 3rd Birthday

1092 days have silently gone by. One day quietly folding into the next. Time moves forward, showing no compassion. Each passing day makes the gap feel wider - not between us, but between the 'world' and you. The gap which was filled with remembrance, sympathy and your name... wrenches wider with time, as sentiments leak out, leaving a void and the ache of my heart.

However, the memory of you remains rightly with us and those close to us.

You were here but a moment but the length of your stay doesn't alter your place in our family or how much we love you. 3 earthly years.... but a breathe in eternity, a place unmarked by time and dates.
On this side of the veil, we remember your birthday and remember that is has been 3 years without you.

I imagine you as a little girl running through fields of flowers, the breeze blowing through your long hair. You are filled with love, joy, freedom and contentment. You are alive and well, whole and healed. In this, we find our peace. How could we not want this for you, despite our desires?

May the courts of heaven in which you dance, be alive with the celebration of your God-given life.
We too will celebrate.

To our girl who touched our world and who changed our lives - all without a single breath.
We love you "to eternity and back."

Happy Birthday Sweetheart
With all our love xxxxxx


(Illustration from 'Mommy Please Don't Cry' - Linda Deymaz & Laurie Snow Hein)