Love Letter To A Grieving Young Woman

A love letter to a grieving young woman……

Last week a young women close in age to my 3^rd daughter in her 20’s lost her precious baby girl for no apparent reason.

This loss has rocked the world of this young mommy and the many around her who love and care for her.

I pray for her, fearing the lie may reach her heart that this is God’s doing, asking the questions of God:  Why?  Why would one so young be taken away?, How?, How could you do this thing?

I have pondered these things over and over, asking God what can I say, what can I do?  Nothing was His answer, saying to me, you can do nothing.  But God did say  listen as I speak, write these things down.  Following are the words I heard, God’s love letter to her:

You are my precious child,

"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.  I will build you up again…and you….will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your timbrels and go out to dance with the joyful. Jer 31:3-4 NIV

I Lord God Almighty did not do this thing, for I created you, I created this earth, and I created you to live forever, that is the way it was meant to be…But there came a day long, long ago that a crafty lying fallen being deceived mankind and brought upon the earth the one thing never meant to enter my world….Death. 

Every human being knows deep in his or her heart that there is something very wrong with death, for eternity has been stamped on every human heart. I know you are grieving right now, please know this was never my intent.

Beth Moore explains the wrongness of death beautifully saying: that I God, hovering in the vast expanse of eternity created a block of time and placed it into eternity, and out of this vast eternity I placed mankind into this block of time.  Then I reached back into eternity and took a piece of eternity and placed it back into the heart of mankind.  That is why the sting of death is so great.  I did not create death, only life, and that for eternity.

Evil has snatched your precious baby from this world, but I want you to know she is not lost to death, but is here with me in heaven for eternity, waiting for you until your appointed time on earth is finished. You will again hold this precious one, and you will rock her and cuddle her for eternity. 

Although I have given mankind a choice to make concerning coming back to me she is not old enough to make that choice and is protected by my great hand.

I know right now you have a gaping flesh wound in your heart, which is hemorrhaging and draining the life out of you.  I also know every tear you have shed and hold them in my hand (Psalm 56:8 RSV).

I want you to know also that the sting of death has been taken away; that is not to say there is not a gaping hole left by the life of your baby girl returned to me.  However, I want you to know she is not dead but alive with me, waiting for you.  You see, though I never intended for death to enter into the picture through mankind’s choice, through deceit and lies, death did enter.

Hear me now o precious child, I have overcome death, that is why it is said:

"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"…But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1Cr 15:55-57 NIV

and again:

"Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." - Eph 5:14 NIV

My precious one I am here.  I know you are bleeding profusely and have no life left in you.  The blood of my Son is waiting to transfuse into you, to bring you back to life.  At your say so, It Will Be Done!  Just say the word—I believe—he is the one who can end the bleeding and bring you back to me.

I am waiting for you to take my hand and place it over your heart, the wound is great but by my mighty hand I am able to heal this great heart wound, slowly, peacefully, beautifully without scar tissue to mar it.  Won’t you believe me when I say I created you and your precious baby….As it is written:

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. -  Psa 139:13-16 

I have loved you with an everlasting love, but dear one there is a chasm between us that was placed there in the beginning by evil, deceit and trickery—and it sits and it waits for a your choice to be made

But take heart! I have overcome...this chasm... this death—by my Son! (John 16:33)

Won’t you take His blood, accept His transfusion and place my hand over your heart to touch you, to heal you.

There is still so much time for you here on this earth, but I promise

I have gone to prepare a place for you and if I have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me also that you (and your baby girl) may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." ..., "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (Jesus.) - Jhn 14:3-4, 6 NIV

I know your baby girl is with me now and I know it is hard to wait to see her again but if you will take hold of my outstretched arm I will heal your brokenheart and bind up your wounds.  (Psalm 147:3)

Your Loving Father


I pray these words touch the tenderest part of your heart and soothe the hurt.