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Truthseeker
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| Location: | Costa Mesa, California USA |
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| First Name: | Laura | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | lapsed and returned CATHOLIC!!!!!! |
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Posted: Mon Oct 16th, 2006 09:10 pm |
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Yesterday, 10/15/06 was the very first official Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. Just three days after the 1st anniversary of the beginning of my own loss, I realize I am being somewhat selfish in this request, but please, I have met so many women over the internet, in this past year, who hurt and agonize over their losses. Many of us have lost, not only our babies and our dreams for the future, but hope as well. Losing hope is almost the hardest part. Please pray for us all. We hurt so very badly.
Love,
Laura
Last edited on Tue Oct 17th, 2006 07:38 pm by Truthseeker
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Talithacumi
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| Joined: | Sat Sep 30th, 2006 |
| Location: | Eastern Ohio, USA |
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| First Name: | Cheri | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Cradle Catholic - Latin Rite |
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Posted: Mon Oct 16th, 2006 09:44 pm |
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Truthseeker wrote: Yesterday, 10/15/06 was the very first official Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Just three days after the 1st anniversary of the beginning of my own loss, I realize I am being somewhat selfish in this request, but please, I have met so many women over the internet, in this past year, who hurt and agonize over their losses. Many of us have lost, not only our babies and our dreams for the future, but hope as well. Losing hope is almost the hardest part. Please pray for us all. We hurt so very badly.
Love,
Laura Laura,
I am still keeping you in my prayers, and I will add all mothers who have lost their babies.
Now, I ask for prayer, too. I hope I'm not getting too personal here, and I don't want to sound like I'm trying to do a one-uppance thing or anything like that, but since the question of loss for would-be mothers has come up, please remember in your prayers also those of us who always wanted children and never had any at all. (Please, please don't think I'm trying to downplay the loss of those who've lost an infant; I am merely suggesting that other would-be mothers suffer, too, though perhaps in a different way). It's hard on us, too. Women were meant to be mothers (in some way, shape or form, but I doubt there's anything like actually having a child of one's own...), and it's sometimes so hard, especially when one is approaching an age where bearing a child is less likely to happen than previously. I am sure it is nothing like what a mother suffers when she loses her baby, but, still, as you say, Laura, losing hope is so hard. I will continue to pray for you, and I ask you and others who feel inclined, to please pray for me and others who always wanted children but never had the chance - or maybe even lost the chance. 
JMJ
- Cheri
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Truthseeker
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Posted: Tue Oct 17th, 2006 07:41 pm |
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I acknowledge the validity of your pain, too. It's not the same, but it is still suffering.
And so, a prayer for you, too!
love, Laura
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Talithacumi
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Posted: Tue Oct 17th, 2006 11:24 pm |
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Truthseeker wrote: I acknowledge the validity of your pain, too. It's not the same, but it is still suffering.
And so, a prayer for you, too!
love, Laura Laura,
Thanks. I just re-read what I wrote, and I feel kinda bad... I fear it looks like I was trying to steal your thunder... I wasn't, honest! It's just that your post just sort of hit me somehow and I lapsed into a moment of self-pity as I was sitting alone at home with no little children to hold close to my heart. It's OK... most of the time I can deal with it. It's just every now and then it gets me. I imagine we all have things that we yearn for and maybe can't ever have at some time in our lives. I'm sorry for bringing my self-pity into the forum, but most especially for looking like I was vying with you or something... sorry about that. If it looks that way, I really didn't mean it to come across that way. Please forgive me.
Anyway, you know I'm still keeping you in my prayers. Keep the faith, sister, and pray that I can do the same. It's tough being Catholic sometimes, as I'm sure everyone on here knows...
JMJ
- Cheri
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Posted: Tue Nov 21st, 2006 08:49 pm |
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Cheri,
You're so silly. After all the encouragement you have given me over this past horrible year, how can you think I'm worried about you stealing my thunder? I just meant our pains are not the same. You don't know what it's like to have a miscarriage, and I don't know what it's like to not have kids. And let me tell you, I think you are in a position to grieve more. I think my comment - it's not the same but still suffering- is just meant to express my new understaning that all suffering is tragic for the sufferer, and I will never try to tell anyone that their suffering and pain isn't valid. Especially if I haven't felt it. I was trying to validate you, the way you have always validated me.
And, I love you 
Laura
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