Valiant Children

Today a sweet family in our ward let Heavenly Father take their beautiful little 2 year old daughter back to live with him. 

This has been a very humbling experience for our family. 

For Marshall because her father has been his YM leader. 

For Victoria because she has help provide some service for the other children in the family. 

And Rob and I for obvious reasons of being parents. 

Time like these are hard to explain because we know that she is in such a wonderful place. However, we have our mortal grief and pain. Which is actually us being selfish because we have lost something we love, but yet very natural and normal.

I just know that I have shed countless tears and many prayers for this family over the last several months and today. And countless more for my own family and children. 

I am grateful for a loving Heavenly Father that knows how special our "valiant children" are and still allows us and trusts us to be their parents.

So, tonight I will hug and kiss my own precious children, Marshall, Victoria, and Isabella and offer a prayer in behalf of this family and for my own children who are also "valiant" but must live in this awful world.