I heard this song and it captured me instantly. At first I was convinced Mumford and Sons sang it (doesn’t it sound like them!?). I love this song.
As I listened to the lyrics, they reminded me so much of the sisterhood I found after we lost Jenna in the online baby loss community. We made this place, this safe haven of writing and blogs a home of sorts.
A home we never asked for. A home we never wanted. But a home we find ourselves in at one time or another, nonetheless.
If you get lost, you can always be found.
At first my blog was my everything. It was the place where I let my heart cry, scream, hurt, question God and remember my daughter when no one else would.
But this place has become so much more, and now it does sort of feel like a home I want to be in.
It is safe, completely surrounded by beautiful people left and right who I don’t know from Adam, whom I will most likely never ever have the chance to meet in person – but we have this bond. And it is a beautiful, unbreakable one.
Something about that life-changing, earth-shattering pain that brings you from the depths of hell to the most unexpected mountain top one day… unites like almost nothing else can.
Have I mentioned how thankful for these women?
Because I am. Everyday. And more than anything I am sorry for any woman that has entered this place, this home. If you are in the thicket of pain, the face of confusion, anger and possibly depression… we get it and you have a place here.
How right you are!!! Who would have thought the vast internet could be such a home for all of us?!?!?!?
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A home where your sister cries with you, and hopes with you, prays with, and dreams with you. It’s beautiful in it’s broken way. I am thankful for you Fran!
Stephanie D recently posted..Right Where I Am: 16 years, 7 months, and 4 days
You are very right! And, I am thankful to have found you, Fran.
You said that perfectly! Home. There is no other way to describe this community. This home has become my safe haven. I too, am filled with gratitude everyday to have found this home.
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Beautifully said!