“This was from several weeks back, yes, I climbed in the crib in hopes to soothe my screaming, teething, blushed faced, and tear soaked little girl,” Dayna wrote on Facebook.
Her husband, Matt, came home and found both mother and daughter lying in the crib together. He took a picture and showed it to Dayna later. She was so touched by what she saw that she felt compelled to post it on Facebook and explain why it hit her straight in the heart.
“One of the first times Matt and I left Luella, was to a worship concert. At that conference, a missionary shared his story, and it shook me to the core,” wrote Dayna.
“That missionary was in an orphanage in Uganda, and he has been in many before, but this one was different. He walked into a nursery with over 100 filled cribs with babes. He listened in amazement and wonder as the only sound he could hear was silence. A sound that is beyond rare in ANY nursery, let alone a nursery where over 100 new babes laid. He turned to his host and asked her why the nursery was silent. Then, her response to him is something I will never, ever forget. EVER.”
“After about a week of them being here, and crying out for countless hours, they eventually stop when they realize no one is coming for them…”
“I broke. I literally could have picked up pieces of my heart scattered about the auditorium floor. But instead, it stirred in me a longing, a hunger.. A promise in my spirit.
We came home, and that night as Luella rested her tiny little 10lb body against mine and we rocked, I made a promise to her. A promise that I would always come to her.”
“At 2:00am when pitiful desperate squeals come through a baby monitor, I will come to her.
Her first hurt, her first heartbreak, we will come to her. We will be there to hold her, to let her feel, to make decisions on her own, and we will be there. We will show her through our tears and frustrations at times, that it is okay to cry, and it’s ok to feel. That we will always be a safe place, and we will always come to her.”
Here is Dayna’s original Facebook post:
This was from several weeks back, yes, I climbed in the crib in hopes to soothe my screaming, teething, blushed faced,…
Posted by Dayna Mager on Thursday, March 31, 2016
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