Grieving Heart
James Grant Souto 12/29/1984 - 03/16/2006
Have you lost a child? I feel your pain all too well having lost my 21 year old son in a car accident not many years ago. It is impossible to quantify the depth of the loss to a family when a child is taken. It is outside of the natural order of things when we lose young people like this. If we could only see the broader picture that God is looking at, but we cannot so long as we are earth-bound. Someday we will understand. Until then, we must have faith that God has our best interest in mind when these things happen. Our loved ones will never be forgotten. My son was taken from our family just three months after my first granddaughter was born. They are pictured together here. The joys of new life and the sadness of lost life; what a roller coaster ride this life we live can be. Our loved one's spirits will live on here on earth in the memories, and the love, of family and friends left behind. Those memories and that love do not fade with the years. I have come to believe that there is a purpose for everything that happens. Unfortunately, we will not understand any of it until we have joined our loved ones in the next life. It is not for us to understand, but to have faith. We should remind ourselves that this earthly place is just a stopping off point in a much longer journey, and our loved ones have had the opportunity to go ahead of time to the place we all want to be some day. They are in a better place than this earthly experience. Unfortunately, we are left behind to miss them so badly. But love continues on beyond death like an umbilical cord tethering us to our child until we see them again. I pray God will comfort you and your family in the difficult days to come. Susan