Baby Has Gone Ahead….Hello, God, it's me, Mara.

You know, Lord, Jonna, shared a ‘story’ her friend, Sally, told her, which happened a few years back, at the birth of Sally’s third baby, when she’d lost her newly born baby girl. It was a cold autumn day when they stood at the graveside service of baby Shenna. Sally recalled the open grave looked like a wound in the ground. Her dad held firstborn Gary, then only four years old. Little eighteen-month-old MaryJo wriggled in her grandma’s arms, trying to reach the flowers.

Time passed by. Sally and Dale prayed for and with their two little ones. That first night, Gary knelt, folded his arms, pra...