I blogged a while back about how I "lost" my son in walmart, because he decided he would sneak off and wait for me on a bench by the front door.
Well, now it's Gabriella's turn!!!
This morning, I was outside with Gabriella while my husband was "hanging out" with my son, inside.
She was contently playing and our yard is fully fenced, so I stepped away for a moment to use the bathroom.
As I came out I heard a distant panicked squeal, so I rushed outside.
She wasn't there!!!
I ran in the house and checked every room, calling her name, with an increasingly frantic tone.
My husband caught on to the situation and started aiding the search.
I ran back outside and started searching every nook and cranny while, John, proceeded the same activity indoors.
Upon realizing that she was not in the yard and I didn't hear my husband announcing any revelation of her from indoors, my head started swimming. I began to pray...
After what felt like forever, John finally found her hiding in the back of our closet. She was silently curled in a pile of coats.
The minute I saw that she was fine, I surprised myself with sobs of relief. It was a combination of happiness/relief that my baby girl was fine, and also a parade of "missing child" posters running through my head. While I get to relax in the knowledge that both my children are safe and well that is not the case for far too many families.
There are families everywhere who's stories don't have "happy endings" and I can't fathom that kind of pain. A tearful prayer reaches out to any parent of any missing child anywhere.
There are families everywhere who's stories don't have "happy endings" and I can't fathom that kind of pain. A tearful prayer reaches out to any parent of any missing child anywhere.
It is a universal terror, and I understand exactly what you mean.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you are the kind of woman/momma who upon finding the safety of your own child, reached out in a prayer united with all the other mothers who have prayed.
And I am really glad Gabby was as close as the closet.
The "good" thing about most of those missing child posters is that a good majority of them are abducted by family. While it would still be awful not to know where you kid is, if an ex-husband or a grandma abducts them its very likely that they are safe and sound somewhere, or at least relatively safe and sound. It used to freak me out a lot to see the missing child posters (when I was a child) until I started reading them and saw that almost all of they were abducted by family.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean literal "missing child posters" as much as any mother anywhere who has had their child taken from them. :(
ReplyDeleteI am a literal thinker. I don't do abstract (art, thinking, you name it, if it is abstract I don't gravitate towards it LOL)
ReplyDeletemakes sense. I wasn't clear.
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