Today I am grateful for Gifts of the Heart, in the most literal sense you could imagine. Our friends Scott and Abbie have been posting about a little girl named Mia McDonald who is only 4 months old (I have included a post on my blog as well). Well, when I checked Scott and Abbie's blog this morning the best news of the world was there, Mia Is Getting A Heart! How incredibly grateful her family must be to know that this little girl has a chance. I couldn't help but say a prayer thanking our Heavenly Father for blessing this little girl with a heart, and a chance at a long life. After I checked Abbie's blog I went to the main blog for Mia (http://helpbabymia.blogspot.com) to see if any more details were there. There was a post late last night informing us that she is getting a heart, at the end it read,
"Thank you for all of your prayers and please remember the
donor family who has so graciously given Mia this gift!"
As I read this post I realized that it hadn't even crossed my mind how this little girl was getting her new heart. Often times when we hear of these stories I think we forget that even though something amazing is happening, it didn't come without a loss to someone else. I know that there is a family out there who has lost a baby. There is a mother who carried, loved and bonded with a child for 9-months to end in heart-ache. A Dad who waited patiently to meet his son/daughter and to love and care for him/her. This baby who is literally giving the gift of life to Mia may have had siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and many others who already loved him/her. As difficult as it may have been for this family to offer this wonderful gift to Mia. After I read this last sentence I couldn't help but offer another prayer asking our Heavenly Father to bless this family with the comfort of the Atonement and the Plan of Salvation. How grateful I am for each of these things as well. How different our lives would be without them, how sad and lonely. But with them we can find joy and peace in our lives every day.
Please remember Mia in your prayers today, along with the wonderful family who has given her this amazing gift that she has waited all 4 -months of her precious life for. Literally a Gift of the Heart!
5 comments:
Jenn, I too am grateful for gifts of the heart. As I was in the shower today (where I spend a lot of quiet time thinking) I thought about the family who lost a little baby and who were so unselfish that they allowed their child's heart to give the gift of life to another young child. It truly is a bittersweet moment. I can only hope that the family whose child is now in heaven will someday know of little Mia and how her inspiration and their gift have touched so many lives.
Thank you so much for posting this. It totally made me cry! I am so grateful for the gossple and the eternal prespective it gives us.
On a lighter note... when is Tucker gunna get here already?!?! Hope you are feelin good and relaxing. Enjoy this special time to just relax and enjoy the quite. This will be the last time for a very long time you wont have a baby/kid around to chase around!
Love ya!
Wow! this pulls on the heart strings!! How awesome for Mia, and you are right, often we don't really think of the other side as much as we should...I can't imagine.
First, I am very touched by your support of little baby Mia. That would be so hard to go through as a parent to see a child have such a traumatic sugery. Thanks for posting this!
Hey Jenn! Thanks for the advice! I will difnitely keep that in mind. I really didn't get any duplicates as far as baby clothes, but I did get three bathtime kits. Aarons parents bought us a ton of diapers, so I think we will be good for quite some time. As far as the baby lotion, I will see if I can't buy some before the baby is born. Great advice! Love Ash.
Wow! This is so touching. It made me cry! Thanks so much for sharing, and I will pray for baby Mia tonight, and that other wonderful family!!
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