On redemption and blue frosting

{When the dying's over 


When the last tear falls

 
When the empty wells overflow 


To fill us all…}

Always - a separation felt deep. How does one harmonize the joy of life, miracles, and stuff that dreams are made of…

…with dark and foggy memories that cause a knot inside?

{…Redemption 


We'll see it with our very own eyes

 
Very own eyes 

and we'll realize 


We're alive for the very first time 


The very first time…}

{…Burdens we have carried 


Melt away like snow 


Loved ones gone before us

 
Welcome us home…}

So, we celebrate

we throw ourselves fully into now

we know this is us,

woven into the fabric of every single one of our earthly Januaries. 

Written into the Story of Our Life.

This is our life.

{…Redemption 


We'll see it with our very own eyes 


Very own eyes 

and we'll realize 
We're alive

 for the very first time 


The very first time…}

This is January. 

This is our ebb and flow. 

This is our story.

There is an unbidden familiarity about it now. 

{…Someday we will remember how to fly

 
Then we will rise like embers burning bright

 
Everything broken will be whole again…}

{…We are the ransomed


We are the redeemed

We are the bride 


And shall forever be


Loved from the start without end 


It will not end…}

{…Redemption

 
We'll see it with our very 

own eyes 
Very own eyes…} 

{…and we'll realize

 
We're alive for the very first time 


The very first…} 

 We rejoice (really, really deep thanks) over what each candle means to us,

 we giggle over Caleb-isms…

and we grin over this fun little fact: blue + frosting = blue teeth.

{Redemption

 
We'll see it with our very own eyes 


Very own eyes 

and we'll realize 
We're alive for the very first time 


The very first time.}

Happy 11th birthday, K {Born prematurely into this world at 10:36 pm on January second, two thousand three, and thriving…}

And always, always in this mama's heart - we love you J.D. 

{Born prematurely into this world at 10:30 pm on January second, two thousand three.

Alive for the very first time in heaven at 9:00 pm on January twelfth, two thousand three.}

"Redemption" - By JJ Heller