Today was the due date of our second child who we've named Adrian Julian, a nice gender-neutral name. The baby passed on May 22, my saint's day, St. Julia of Corsica, so it seemed appropriate to name the baby after her. Adrian was picked because the girl and boy names we had picked out both started with an A.
Today is bittersweet because it is sad to think about how we won't know our baby in this life, but God willing we will know him/her in the next. God's plan for our baby were better than ours, and we fully accept that. God blessed us with Adrian Julian for 9 weeks. How could we be upset about that? Life is better than no life at all, even if it only lasts 2 months.
Fr. Jack did a memorial mass for Adrian Julian this morning, and the scripture readings could not have been better. It feels like everything is complete now. All we have to do is continue on with our lives now in hopes of meeting Adrian one day.
On a side note, I opened up this devotional book that I have this morning, and it included a scripture reading from Blessed Julian of Norwich.
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