As we approach this Sunday, September 27, the day Aleigha was scheduled to be born, I will share with you several blog entries that are from a journal entry I did titled, "Ways God Has Blessed Us In the Midst of Our Pain & Grief." These are things I wrote down during the week we learned of Aleigha's earthly fate, her birth, her death and her burial. These are things I wanted to remember and want to share with you so that you can see God's goodness as he worked in our situation.
"Ways God Has Blessed Us In the Midst of Our Pain & Grief"
7. God just seemed to give such wisdom in making decisions, in such a way that it seemed like we really did everything possible to maximize the moments we had with Aleigha and to capture the memories of the week and Aleigha’s life and death. I think it was just God’s grace!
8. A good friend of ours who is a professional photographer offered to come and take pictures of Aleigha at the hospital as well as at the funeral home and graveside service. What a blessing this was! She also bought us 3 dresses and brought them with her to the hospital for Rachael and me to choose from to have Aleigha buried in. She then took the initiative to have the one we chose, tailored to fit Aleigha and get it to the Funeral home for us. What a gift!
9. Having our friends, Jody & Tara Lengacher, who help run Thompson-Lengacher Funeral Home, as the ones to take care of all the funeral arrangements for us. It was a huge blessing to have people we knew taking care of all the details and taking care of our little Aleigha.
10. Good friends of ours bought us a shrub that we can plant and remember Aleigha by every time we look at it. What an awesome gift!
11. My future sister-in-law’s mom made us a blanket that says, “Aleigha Grace Thompson.” It is beautiful and is something we’ll always have to cherish.
12. All of our friends who came to the service. What a blessing to see how much we are loved!
13. All the people who seem to have been impacted by how we have handled the death of Aleigha. That was definitely a God thing because all we did was react and do what we truly believed in. It was a blessing to see God use us in the midst of our pain and to know that in doing so it was bringing significance to Aleigha’s life and death.
14. God prepared Rachael on Monday for what was ahead. It was the first time in quite awhile that she had time to sit down and have a good, quality Time Alone With God. She Read Psalm 20. The very first verse says, “May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.” How appropriate!
Part III of this mini-series is coming tomorrow.
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