Her Story Isn't Over

A couple weeks before Emma was born I decided that I wanted to be intentional with making a baby book for her. I went to hobby lobby and spent way too much money (like always😬🤷🏼‍♀️) on a scrapbook. I then went home and started making her baby book! I wasn’t able to get too far and the last page I was able to finish before she was born was her ultrasound page.

Since Emma passed I haven’t opened that book or honestly, gone near it. Just too hard. Every time I thought about it it brought me to tears that my girls book was going to be a very short one. That I wasn’t going to be able to enter all her milestones in it or see the way she grew up and changed over time. But today I felt a prompting that it was time to finish that book. So I opened it up!

As I was drawing/writing I felt God speak to my heart. Her book may be shorter and close to finished but her story isn’t! I thought about Jesus. How when he died, rose again and ascended into heaven, his story didn’t end … in fact, it was just the beginning. I thought about the disciples and all the people God called to proclaim His gospel. They all died… but their stories didn’t end there either. I thought about two of my grandparents and how even though they are no longer here, their faith and their lives are still impacting my life today. I realized today that my Emma may no longer live on this side of heaven, but her story is still going. And God is using me to tell it. What a privilege and yet huge task that is!

I don’t know what you’re going through today but I do know that your story isn’t finished. Your story may be painful and messy. It may be broken. It may, overall, be going pretty good. Whatever it is… it is your story. It is beautiful. Tell your story and use it to glorify the one who is writing it!

My Emma’s baby book might be short and close to finished, but I truly believe her story has just begun and that the Lord is going to use it to impact the world and bring people closer to Him. He can do the same to your story too if you let Him💜🌼🦋

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