Happy 4th Birthday Joshua

September 29th 2012

Fours years ago today, our precious Joshua was born.

These last couple days have been difficult for me. 

So, I thought instead of writing my thoughts, 

I would write the words of those who have comforted me the most.

"We rest assured that all things are controlled and governed by Him whose spirit children we are. He knows all things from the beginning to the end and he provides for each of us the testings and trials which he knows we need."

 - Elder Bruce R McConkie

"The Lord takes many away, even in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man, and the sorrows and evils of this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth."

 - President Joseph Smith

"[Death] is the great reliever. It is a majestic, quiet passing on from this life to another life, a better life, I'm satisfied of that. We go to a place where we will not suffer as we have suffered here, but where we will continue to grow, accumulating knowledge and developing and being useful under the plan of the almighty made possible through the atonement of the Son of God." 

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

 "...all children who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven." 

- D&C 137:10

 "If we say that early death is a calamity, disaster or a tragedy, would it not be saying that mortality is preferable to earlier entrance into the spirit world and to eventual salvation and exaltation? If mortality be the perfect state, then death would be a frustration, but the Gospel teaches us there is no tragedy in death but only in sin." 

- President Spencer W. Kimball

"The only different between the old and young dying is, one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory than the other, and is freed a little sooner from this miserable, wicked world.

 - President Joseph Smith

"Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly. They would not require you to experience a moment more of difficulty than is absolutely needed for your personal benefit or for that of those you love."

 - Elder Richard G. Scott

We miss our little guy dearly.

We love him. 

We know that he is in his Heavenly Father's care now. 

He is where he is supposed to be.

Now it's up to us to be who we are supposed to be,

 so that we can live with Him and our son Joshua someday.