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An emotional poem written by a father whose 10 month old daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer.
The poem reminds us how much we should appreciate our daily life with our precious children. Let us live every moment with gratitude!
To my child
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry and pick you up and take you to the park to play.
Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles.
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won’t worry about what you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won’t stand over you trying to fix them.
Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald’s and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys.
Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born and how much I love you.
Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars..
Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favourite TV shows.
Just for this evening when I run my finger through your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given.
I will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their children’s graves instead of their bedrooms.
The mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer and scream inside that little body.
And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer.
It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing, except one more day…….
WA ALLAHI IT MADE ME CRY.
It’s so heartbreaking… :'(
Grief is grief: no matter what the circumstances of your loss or who it is you have lost, grief is an inevitable and intense psychological reaction that is unlike anything else you will experience. And while you are grieving, what you are experiencing will always be the most intense and dominant aspect of your life.
Having said that, I also recognize that the circumstances of a loss may make the loss more or less difficult to come to terms with.
This made me cry.
Grieving parents are survivors and often do feel alone, disconnected, and alienated. The tragedy of a child’s severe illness and death brings profound pain to all affected, and it presents incredibly difficult and unusual problems for grieving parents. May God give all grieving parents the strength.