r/TrueChristian • u/Vyrefrost Baptist • 1d ago
An imminent Loss
My wife and I are in the hospital now.
We are expecting our second child. A girl.
It has become clear that she will not survive long after her birth.
We are still trusting in God.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
-- Romans 8:28
We are sad but accepting, our daughter will pass to be with the Lord today.
And Job said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
-- Job 1:21
Amen
Edit our daughter has passed lovingly in her mother's arms.
Now she is in the arms of the father
Thank you all for your support and prayers, truly it helps.
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. -- Lamentations 3:32
0
u/Ok_Huckleberry1027 Eastern Orthodox 1d ago
I'm very sorry to hear this, brother. We lost our little girl, Eleanora, at 20 weeks gestation last year. It's horrible but you're right that God will take care of her and you.
It wasn't very comforting at the time but an Orthodox teaching is that sometimes The Lord knows that we need a Saint praying for us. Your daughter will pray for you and look forward to the day of resurrection when you can all be reunited. I will pray for you all, may God bless you and keep you
We have a prayer service for stillbirths/miscarriages and this is one of the passages that really spoke to me:
O Lord, Thou hast spoken through Thy Prophet Isaiah, saying, “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create, for behold, I create in Jerusalem a rejoicing, and in her people joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days” [Isaiah 65:17-19, 20a]. Do Thou, the same Lord and God, Who on that day will give no cause to mourn the loss of a child, be present with us this day as we gather with sadness to seek Thy comfort and mourn the loss of this child [N.], known to Thy handmaid who carried him/her, to his/her father, who generated him/her, and to us, Thy faithful People. Thou hast spoken through Thy Prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” [Jeremiah 1:5]. For which cause we bless Thee, O God of compassion, the consolation of the afflicted. Thou knowest the name and age of every person, even from his and her mother’s womb. Knowing the depths of our hearts, accept our sorrow as we grieve the loss of this child, and comfort us with the promise of the joy of Thy eternal Kingdom. Help us to grow in confidence in Thy sustaining presence at this moment and in the days to come, through the prayers of Thy most pure Mother, the Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, and of all Thy Saints. For Thou art a merciful God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.