Tom and I have been blessed by our friends and family the past year with everything we have been through. Our friends and family have been there for support, sent prayers, food, cards money and love to us the past year and we are very grateful and thankful for everything they have done. But Tom and I were surprised by the kindness and generosity of strangers.
On Christmas Eve, Tom and I returned home from celebrating Christmas with Tom's family in Kalamazoo. I went in the house as Tom got the mail. Tom came in with a big package that was stuffed in the mailbox. I recognized the return address as a friend I met online. I belong to an online support group for women who have had a miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss. One of the women had sent Tom and I a package.
We opened the package and there were four wrapped gifts and a card. I opened the card and read it first. It was not just from one person but from almost 40 people form the group! Tom and I opened the two biggest gifts first. They were both Willow Tree figurines. They were both angels to remind us of our angel babies. The next gift I opened was the smallest. It was a necklace made by one of the women from my group. On the outside is an angel. When it was opened up there is both Grant and Nathan's names next to the day they were born in heaven and their birth stones. It is so beautiful. I wear it all the time. The last gift I opened and began crying immediately. They had given us $350 in Visa gift cards.
Tom and I held each other and cried. We have never been so humbled are peoples' generosity. Tom kept saying that they had done too much, given too much. Women that we have never met care so much about us. We are in awe of those women and we want to thank each and every one individually for your kind gift. A big thanks to Amanda Vosburg for putting this all together. Surely God will bless all of the women for giving to us so generously.
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’
Acts 20:35
Praise God for His faithfulness in giving us our gift!
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