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I cry everytime I think of you and what you are enduring. I pray for you often and I thank you for the lawsuit. I know you must re-live the death of beautiful Grace each time you tell us all of the horror to get the word out and wake people up. I can't thank you enough for continuing to fight.💜

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Tone Bone,

Thank you for your encouragement and your caring heart. As you described, it is hard reliving the events that took our beautiful Grace, yet necessary. It still seems so surreal that she is gone. 💔Behind doors tears flow having to go on without her. 🥺 She was such a joy and the love she brought to so many lives is dearly missed.

Thank you for praying for us and the lawsuit. 🙏🏻

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I enjoyed your article. I too wondered what the birds were thinking as the snowstorm was approaching. I too thought of filling up the bird feeder before the snowstorm. I too thought that God would provide and take care of them. I too work on trusting God more. I too had a child born with Down Syndrome that died due to medical negligence in 1998. My heart shattered as if it were made of fine glass. The pieces fell to the ground. I was confused... I prayed for a different outcome. My eyes to my heart was opened. In my heart I knew that I had placed my child above God. I'm so glad that you continue to share your love for your children and the Lord. Our life here is a journey with God. When Abraham was lead by God to a unknown destination he trusted God. God was with Him. I pray as we journey together that our trust in God will be like that of Abrahams. In the name of Jesus Christ

Oh yeah, I did fill up the bird feeder : )

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Oh Kim, I am so sorry to hear that you too lost a special someone in your life. Our lives will never be the same! Only when we get to heaven and are greeted by our children and Jesus will our mother’s hearts be healed. All I know is that, as you pointed out, we must trust our Lord and Savior to walk through this. Glad this separation is only temporary, that is, when we know we are sinners and Jesus is our Savior. Sending many (((hugs))).

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Grace’s mom,

Thank you for sharing this. Your beautiful Grace was taken way too soon and God will avenge her death. Things were done in hospitals that we would never think in a million years would happen. It’s hard to believe even after all this time and information that is out there, people are still so deceived! I pray by the blood of Jesus, that God would tear the scales from eyes and give people ears to hear of all that has been done to humanity and your precious Grace! We are getting there, but God calls people to have courage and we are really lacking in that🙏🏼

Blessings to you and your family, peace and love to you♥️

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Thank you for speaking the truth about what we clearly now see, and for your encouraging words. Walking the path God has put us on has its ups and downs especially when people, like you said, don’t or won’t open their eyes. God is trying to wake those who are His and others. We must allow Him to use us to open hearts one at a time if need be. 🙏🏻❤️

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You speak for all of us who lost their loved ones this way. I could handle his natural death but when I think of the smirking professionals who clearly knew what they were going, I can barely stand it.

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Jamie, I am so sorry you too have endured this pain. I agree. The way we lost our loved ones makes it harder to go on. The stories of how people were being treated is horrifying. Grace said the nurses were idiots, so I know they were not being kind to her which breaks my heart. 💔🥺😢

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I am so sorry for your loss. I cannot begin to fathom what it feels like as a mother to lose not one, but two children. I would be sick and would not be able to go on, if I lost even one of mine, but there is a big difference between my children and yours because mine do not believe in Jesus and that is my fault. I was a lost soul who did not raise them to know Jesus because I did not want to raise them in a corrupt church and by the time I realized who Jesus is (not the Jesus in the church of my youth), the damage was done. If one or both of my children dies, they are going to the lake, not to heaven. Living with that makes me sick because I dont know how to fix it other than setting an example for them to follow.

What struck me about your post today is how lucky you are, that you can find comfort knowing these two children Jesus took can no longer be hurt by this evil world we live in, that they are both saved with Jesus. As a mom, I would trade my life for either of my children just to give them one more day to find Jesus. I want you to know you are the best mom. You did the one thing most important as a parent in raising your children to know God, to know His Son so that they are not lost, they are there waiting for you in paradise. God says, vengeance is mine for a reason as another level of our faith in Him. Its to take that burning knot out of our gut, that helpless feeling we get when we wish we could turn back time and get a do over because we were tricked or misled or ignorant of some important fact that if known, might have changed everything. These trials exist to build our faith and trust in God because He is in control of both the good and the evil. So while it can be really hard some days to remember the big picture of why we are here and in our weaker moments when Satan sneaks in to tempt us to complain about what we feel is missing from our lives, I pray that you find peace knowing you did everything you were supposed to do as a mom and find joy remembering the good times you shared with them, who are not lost but are found with Jesus. Thank you for your posts

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Donna,

Your comment brought me to tears, as it was very heartfelt. I sure do not feel like I was the best mom.🥺 Thank you for your kind words of praise though. I made plenty of mistakes, and God made plenty of corrections.

You too are a great mom and God hears a mother’s cries. Call out to Him and pray fervently for your children. You living for Him now is a testimony to His power.

I was lost being brought up Catholic. We were never encouraged to read the Bible. We were told we wouldn’t be able to understand it; only the priests and the pope could. I sadly now see how the devil has his evil scheme playing out there. None of us can EVER be “good enough” and “do enough good deeds” to earn our way into heaven! AND… there is no purgatory!

We must all see ourselves as sinners so we see the need for Jesus and the gift He ALONE gives. God demands perfection to come to Him, and the only way we can be perfect is by accepting the blood of Jesus shed on the cross as payment.

Donna, Jesus knows the pain a mother carries for her children. The only way I am able to live another day is to know He loved Travis and Grace more than me. They were His and I just had them borrowed to me. I feel honored to have had the time with them, yet I feel robbed by Satan. His evil doers have stolen many, many lives over the years. I see the Holocaust through a whole different set of lenses now. Once sin entered the world in the garden we see man out to kill each other. Corrie TenBoom gave me encouragement when she said only 1/3 of the angels fell while the other 2/3s are here with us and fighting for us. 💕

I would like to leave you with a message of hope. The gospel is Jesus Christ plus nothing. The best parents in the whole world can have kids that don’t know Him and the worst parents in the world get kids who know Him. Why? It’s because it has nothing to do with us. It’s all Him. Satan wants us to focus on what WE did or didn’t do, but that’s NOT Gods’ way. He doesn’t want anyone to perish, yet many will. God sees your repentant heart Donna. Trust Him. I will be praying with you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

((((( Hugs))))

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Amen, praying with you for your children

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Thank you Donna and Cindy, for your faithful service and prayers. In His grace- He did what the law could not do, in that it was weakened by the sinful nature! We have all been weak. We can’t claim anything. Cindy’s right. It’s all Him. He must b sufficient.

Many parents are suffering losses of various kinds these days. These heartbreaks are in the rise. You are not alone!

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I rest in the fact that God's justice is always done, if not here, then at the final judgment. I believe in my heart that justice for Grace WILL be done here and am praying fervently. God's will be done!

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Oh Melanie, thank you for your prayers and for reminding me to rest, like you, in the truth about God’s justice! We too feel that God has Grace’s case all under control, and will use her case to help others who died horrifically seek justice. 💜💜💜

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Beautifully written Cindy. You and Scott truly are so brave to tell your painful story over and over, hoping to effect change. I believe you will prevail. God and Grace are guiding you on the right path. Grace is beaming with pride at her earthly parents! With a bouquet of dandelions in her hand! 🥰

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Thanks KC. 🥲❤️🙏🏻

I am waiting for her dandelions to pop up in our yard soon. It looks like a beautiful field of yellow! When they do it feels like I’m getting a hug from my Grace Emily. 😉

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