27/06/2023
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: Infant Loss.
You wouldn’t know this about our family... but we lost a baby less than 2 years ago. Micah was born with a kidney disease that 6 months later took his life. 🖤 He never came home from the hospital… the first time his sisters got permission to visit him, he was already unconscious, only hours from passing away. 🥺
For such a short life, his is a very long story, but not one we will share in this post. What we want to convey today, is that as excruciating as that time was, it was filled with miracles. People served our family in simple ways that made all the difference to our hearts which were breaking. We were given groceries, hand-written letters 📝, and gifts 🎁 to cheer up our other kids among countless other things we don’t have caption room to list. People prayed for us 🙏 and watched our kids so we could be at the hospital 🏥.
One of the highlights was a family member nominating us for a special giveaway - a popular photographer in our area chose to gift a struggling family with a photo shoot as a way of giving back to the community and lightening a burden of someone in need. We were stunned with gratitude when they chose us! Getting family photos done didn’t erase the pain we were feeling, but it put a silver lining in a storm cloud when things had been very dark. And that gave us an idea! 💡
Every year on Micah’s birthday we do a service project in his honor, but we want to try something new. We want to surprise someone going through a hard time with a puppy. 🐶 Free of cost. We are forever grateful for our family, friends and community who gave us a reason to smile amidst tears and we want to do that for someone else. But we need YOUR help. We want YOU to nominate someone who you think this would bless. You can help us out by tagging someone below who you think has someone they could nominate 👇 or by sharing to your stories to help us get the word out. 📢
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