One year ago on this date, the four of us (five, really :) woke up in our St. Louis apartment and spent the beautiful morning exploring the neighborhood. We took in the scenery. We enjoyed our big girls. We spent some time with my parents. We thought a lot about what the coming days would bring. At this very time that evening, John and I left our girls with my parents at our apartment and headed a couple of blocks up to Barnes-Jewish for my scheduled induction. We were so excited and ready to meet our baby girl. We were ready for the next step of the journey with our sweet heart baby. We received Brooke's diagnosis in June 2013, so for four months we had been talking, researching, learning, appointment-going, processing, preparing, praying... We were as ready as we could have been. And though we felt well-prepared, we had no idea just how difficult those days ahead would be. But God did. God knew exactly what was coming. And in all His goodness, He met us there with grace and mercy.
Let us approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. --Hebrews 4:16
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| on the sundeck atop our apartment building just a few hours before we left for the hospital |
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