On Sunday, December 12th Selah would've been 3...
I wasn't planning to post about her this year.
I wasn't planning to post about her this year.
I walk this mental and emotional line of not wanting to dwell on missing her. To be honest, this year, I'd kind of purposed to just get through the day and to avoid any emotional triggers.
So we were planning to celebrate her birthday just a bit with our kiddos...we have a couple of traditions that help us remember her.
But--God, true to His character, showed us His love in a special, sweet way....
On Sunday morning, before church, a friend dropped by....someone who didn't even know us when we had Selah...she said that she knew it was Selah's birthday and she wanted to drop off some warm scones and hot chocolate to help us celebrate.
I'm always shocked at how quickly the tears flow.
I didn't even think she knew about Selah's birthday.
At church that morning, a close friend shared that she dreamed about Selah the night before...just imagining her in Heaven and what she would be like at 3 years old...it was such a sweet glimpse of what I look forward to someday.
I know God prompted special love from several friends last week...
And then 3 of the songs that we sang during Sunday's church service were songs that we'd included in Selah's memorial. They are songs that always take us right back to that time with her.
There's no way the music team would've or could've known that they'd chosen our "Selah Songs"...but Jason and I both felt God's love as we remembered....
And finally our pastor spoke on Lamentations 3:21-23. We chose those verses for our Christmas card several weeks ago. But they became meaningful to me when Selah died. She died on a Friday and we went to church that Sunday. All I remember from the entire service is our Pastor leading the church in singing "Great is Thy Faithfulness" after he shared about Selah's death. Later that day, I found these verses in my Bible:
"But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope;
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning,
Great is Your faithfulness."
This year...on Selah's 3rd birthday...God continued to show us His faithfulness in ways that He knew would help us remember His love. And I felt like He was showing me that remembering Selah and celebrating her sweet life really just pulls my heart closer and closer to Him.
