Tea & A Good Book Brewing- Installment 12, Light My Candle
There are many things in life that, given the choice, I would much rather not know too much about, intimately. Miscarriage is one of them. And yet, it is not always ours to choose every fork in the road, and when suffering or loss lies in our path, we choose not our circumstances, but our responses... In the grief and emptiness that followed on the heals of my second miscarriage, I did a lot of crying out against the pain of my loss. I asked "Why?" I felt sure that God had all the babies He needed in Heaven and that mine belonged with me. It was during that time that I bought a book on the subject of miscarriage at our little local bookstore that became a very special source of healing for me. The book was, Light My Candle , Prayers in the Darkness of Miscarriage , by Stephanie J. Leinbach , and the poetry within it's pages gave voice to my grief in a way that I was unable to. Stephanie wrote these heartfelt prayers as her own personal response ...