Brilliant Blue Skies
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009
by Linda Doty
Head in the Clouds
The morning that my daughter Jennifer died it started to snow. I remember thinking, Im glad its snowing, it will blot out the world. I need for the world to be blotted out. The snow came down so heavy. I thought about the little statue of the Blessed Mother, my mother gave me. She will never let you down, she said. I remembered the vial of Holy Water a friend gave me when Jennifer first got sick. It had an inscription, our Lady of the Snows. I thought is there a connection?
Almost a year later. I sat in the hospital after giving birth to my son Peter. My second day there the evening buzz around the hospital was that a big snow storm was coming. I asked my doctor if I could go home, that evening he released me. Bill came and picked us up. I remember driving home with my little son and watching the windshield wipers brushing the heavy falling snow away. I prayed we would make it home safe. The night was so black. I entered the peace of my home. I lay my little son down in his cradle. We slept.
When I awoke the next morning, the sun was shining and the sky was that same brilliant blue. The snow was white and deep. And it felt like it was the day after my daughter died. And the Blessed Mother, Our Lady of the Snows was saying, Here is your new little baby son to love and care for. I Could go forward now, slowly, into my life with the brilliant blue skies.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Bless you Linda, Bless you and your Family. :0)
From Jeff C. in IL. Take Care. :o)
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