Thanks folks, it's been fun to share this space for a season.   My life has changed, and I'm moving from Glory to Glory.

Driving back from doing town errands yesterday, it hit me that my last post needs to be about a sweet little girl who is no longer with  us.  I first met this child via her pregnant mother as the grandmother was a neighbor of ours.

I was very happy to meet her because to me every pregnancy is to be cherished and nurtured with great gratitude.

The grandmother shunned my gift of some copies of Above Rubies, saying it would be condemning to this mom.  Within 6 weeks of delivering a beautiful baby girl, the mom went back to work and shuffling baby to daycare and grandma and the doctor visits and pharmacy visits were in full force.   Of course she didn't breastfeed because that's too inconvenient, formula is so easy.  The entire family smoked, and so of course baby girl had breathing problems and was given 'breathing' treatments.'    

One Friday night fellowship at our home, baby girl came with grandpa and grandma and danced and danced before the Lord and us as people played guitar and sang praises to the Lord.  Thank you Lord for this sweet memory of this babe who came before you just as she was.

At age 3, the mother found her body in her crib one morning.  The autopsy said it was a brain aneurism, and nothing could have been done.  I choked when I heard this and choke now writing it.  Folks, this is another case of death by pharmaceuticals and a mother who preferred working and letting someone else raise her children.  The mother Could have bathed her baby girl in love and the Word and breastfed her and stayed home with her and NOT given her baby toxic medications. 

May those of you with girls to influence give them a vision for MOTHERHOOD,  it saves lives and brings JOY.  And those of you with young men around, teach them the importance of providing for and encouraging  women to raise their babies in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  Children are an heritage from the Lord.

Lord forgive us.