This day will forever be hard for me. I am sure as the years pass the pain will lessen, but today it is still very real. Our daughter Norah Rose Cook was born and passed on this day one year ago. She was so tiny, but was very much a beautiful baby girl.
And she is still very much a part of our family and always will be. As the days have passed this year, I have felt more sadness and pain from losing her, but today I have been reminded just how thankful I am that God gave her to us even for just a few moments. She has taught our entire family how to love deeper, how to have compassion for others, and how to show our faith through the most treacherous of storms. She will forever be a symbol of God's power and His role as our Creator as she was so perfectly formed and was chosen by Him.
I am so humbled by the way some of our friends have honored her today--leaving an extra big tip for a waitress in Norah's honor, donating onesies to Nurse's for Newborns, paying for someone's coffee, etc. Read this post HERE to see how you can pass on some love, kindness and joy to someone else in honor of our daughter. Feel free to email me at elizabethacook@sbcglobal.net with how you have done son--we would love to hear from you!
Each day, each milestone that I conquer seems a little more of a victory for me. Today we are not only celebrating Norah, we are celebrating my second chance at life. I was able to have another year to love on Maggie and Elliott and to be a wife to Greg. Elliott asked me this morning why I always kiss and hug him so much and tell him I love him so many times each day. I think I just can't let a moment go by to let them know how precious they are to me and how loved they are. A friend of mine emailed me today to let me know she was thinking of Norah, but how she couldn't imagine losing me too. It reminded me to be grateful for this life--we are trying as hard as we can to stay faithful, but that doesn't always take away the pain and hurt.
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
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Reading this again...and still without words. Letting you know that I'm thankful that you have words to share through your experience.
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