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October is such a big month for awareness to different diseases, disabilities, and causes. But for this week’s blog I’d like to touch on one specific awareness that hits so close to home. October serves as Pregnancy and Infant loss awareness month.

Pregnancy and Infant loss effects 1 in 4 women according to the National Institutes of Health. What seems like such a striking statistic is real life for many families around the world, my family included. I could not share my story without sharing about this cause, without sharing about my sister.

When I was 7 years old and my brother was 5, my parents shared with us that soon we were going to be getting twin sisters! I was thrilled but my brother had to adjust that he’d be way outnumbered! Months went by and everything was going so well. My parents attend their final check-up before the scheduled c-section. The doctor tells my parents that he can only find one heartbeat. My sisters were born later that day through emergency c-section.

Life is truly such a beautiful thing, as much as that sounds like a cliché. But God created human life in a unique way. Today I want to look at how God created human life and the intrinsic value that we as humans have, and I also want to discuss the heartbreak that comes with the loss of life.

In the image of God

When creating humans, God gave us a unique trait that sets us apart from any other life form on earth and even the angels in heaven: we are made in His image.

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

Genesis 1:27

This verse is not intended to say that we have God’s own flesh and blood, but in most other ways we are created to resemble Him. God is a Being that appreciates and values relationships, we as humans display that quality in our families, our friendships, and romantic relationships. We desire to be with other people. We also resemble God in that we engage in rational thought, we reason, and we have free will.

What is so amazing to me is that God has made us aware of Him. Each human soul knows that there is a God and He has given us all some sense of morality.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Deep down we all know that there is a God. Some may choose to believe in gods that aren’t the God of the Bible, but we are all somewhat aware that there’s something more than just us.

The fact that we are created in God’s image and likeness proves the theory of evolution incorrect. It also proves that there was no way anything of this earth could have been created by chance. We are here on purpose by the Maker of the universe and that isn’t even the best part. That same Creator wants a personal, intimate relationship with each of us. He desires to know us and for us to know Him. This implies that humans are important to God, which is why He commands us to protect human life, from the womb to the tomb.

Gone too soon

In one way or another we all know of at least one human being that we care for. We can all agree that the loss of someone we love is one of, if not the worst, feelings known to us. This is because that we as humans value other humans, it’s in our nature.

There are so many ways we could have gone when talking about the sanctity of human life but I want to go somewhere that you might not have expected, which is why I started this post discussing Pregnancy and Infant Loss.

Losing my sister was one of the most profound things to happen to me to date. Until her passing I had never experienced death before. It didn’t even make sense at the time that someone could die while they were so young and caskets could be so small. It’s important for us to bring awareness to this heart break because it happens much more often than we tend to realize.

It’s important to be mindful and acknowledge the pain that families go through. Because life matters, no matter how short it was. We should care for our smallest members of society, we should accept them and love them, no matter how long they are with us.

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit.

Psalm 34:18

If you or someone you know have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death I want you to know that you are not alone. Not only do you have a community that wants to support you, you have a God in heaven who cares about what happens to you. He sees your broken heart. I can’t promise that the grief will go away, it’s more that you learn how to manage it. But the Lord will help you manage that.

With our knowledge about how important human life is, I hope that we can not only learn empathy and care for the smallest humans but also for the humans around us. You will never look into the eyes of someone the Lord does not love. Every human is valuable in His eyes and He desires that we would all come home to Him.