Miscarriage Book Update
I have previously posted that I was going to try to have the book about healing after miscarriage completed by my due date, which was April 18...unfortunately, I didn't make it! However, I actually am very close to the end of the writing part now...I only have about 1 or 2 more pages that I am planning to write, and I'm just hoping that the editing process won't be too difficult (thank goodness for my friend Allison who has been working so hard to help edit my whole book for me, out of the kindness of her heart) so that I can get it published as soon as possible. I am so very sorry to those of you who have been waiting for this book and it's not here yet...it seems to take so much longer than I anticipated when I first began writing it!
I am hoping that the money I've gotten for doing the mural I'm currently working on will help go towards publishing costs (I'll be self publishing, not going through a publishing company). I think the money should cover at least half of it...and my husband will be helping me with the rest!
If there is anything you are still wanting to contribute, but haven't yet found the time, please let me know...I can still work more into the book as it comes in. Anything that you think would encourage or comfort someone going through a miscarriage would be wonderful.
I am hoping that the money I've gotten for doing the mural I'm currently working on will help go towards publishing costs (I'll be self publishing, not going through a publishing company). I think the money should cover at least half of it...and my husband will be helping me with the rest!
If there is anything you are still wanting to contribute, but haven't yet found the time, please let me know...I can still work more into the book as it comes in. Anything that you think would encourage or comfort someone going through a miscarriage would be wonderful.
Editing is almost done on my part as well! Send me the new pages you have and I'll add those in as well.
Do you want me to change the formatting at all?
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Allison, I will send you an email or call soon!
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Thanks for writing this book.
I have been pregnant 10 times. Seven of my children are here. 3 did not come into this world. In my human frailty, my thoughts are, "Baby Jamie was due on April 27th. I would be holding him/her right now. I would be losing sleep..." But then I think how God may view it. I think that the days of Jessie, Jordan, and now Jamie were accomplished. It was His plan for them to live those few weeks in my womb. The rest of my children have experienced what life is. Their days, too, are already numbered in His eyes. Those little ones that we lost have changed our lives forever. We are more compassionate, encouraging, and more understanding toward others. We have learned that the miscarriage isn't an event that we experience and is gone. It stays forever with us and we have the hope that we will be reunited some day. We learn to accept each pregnancy with joy, regretting we even had a thought that we weren't ready for this child. We enjoy every pregnancy along with our children for every minute of it. Finding out we are expecting no longer gives us assurance we will meet this child face to face. Not out of bitterness, but a wise understanding, that God is in control, He is sovereign, and He doesn't give us more than we can bear. We are glad our children know that they have little ones they will meet in heaven.
We speak of our live children as arrows. The truth is that they all are, even the ones who have died. Their lives have changed many although we never got to know them.
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Cheryl, I am so very sorry for your losses. You have a great perspective and I really appreciate you sharing those words of wisdom!
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Don't know if you already have seen theese blogs :
A post about miscarriage.
http://amysfinerthings.com/
Jackies blog.
http://blessingsoverflowing.blogspot.com/2010/05/miscarriage.html
Kirsten
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Kirsten, thank you for the links! I didn't see them till today.
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