Jan 10, 2011
Kissing the Sky
Last night, per Morrow’s request, Abraham was having wrestling time with the big boys. I positioned Whit’s bouncy seat in a place where he could safely survey the action. Cadence and I were in the next room, snuggling and talking on the couch.
Orison came to the door and announced, with a big smile, “It’s boy time in here, and girl time out there!”
Then a couple minutes later he ran out to the “girl time,” kissed Cadence, and said to me very brightly and happily “I wish Felicity was right…[pointing to the empty space on my lap] there.”
He flashed me his million-dollar smile, backed up a few paces, then jumped, face upturned, and kissed the sky.
We miss you, little girl. And we’ll throw kisses at the sky for as long as it takes until we see you again.
Beyond precious.
What a beautiful moment. Thanks for sharing.
God bless his tender, precious heart. I love that boy so much it hurts.
…Kinda how I feel about the whole lot of you Pipers.
Missing you all,
Jessica
that’s beautiful!
What an incredibly tender moment…he has quite a loving spirit!
Oh goodness, will you ever forget that moment?
Be still my heart. That is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. You are loved, Miss Felicity! And always will be!!
Oh my. That did major things to my heart. He is so caring and thoughtful. Love all of you so much
“O” is the bomb!
BEST
BIG
BROTHER
EVER.
This is beautiful and moving and heart-wrenching. What a sweet spirited boy.
(Molly, I follow your blog regularly, but rarely comment. But I do pray… whenever I read your words, I pray for your family. Thank you for sharing your world with us.)
Oh, I love that. So adorable and touching and sad.
So beautiful, thank you for sharing.
It is a wonderful thing to watch the little ones express their love, and their faith. My boys inspire me often with their rememberance of Ellie, and Orison makes me want to give him a big hug for remembering Felicity.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful moment.
I know that her loss still (and will always) bring you pain, but moments like this, when she’s such a part of the family you are today, are God-given. I know people whose grief has internalized to the point where the absent loved one is never mentioned, lest someone tear up. I am so sad for them when the one who is in heaven can’t be mentioned here. :( How wonderful that her brothers and sister will know her.
It’s strange and sad to me that there are people who don’t “live with” their losses. I feel sorry for them, like they could be learning and experiencing so much *more* if they’d only look for the treasures there are in dark times. Not that I feel superior, it’s just something that comes kinda naturally for me–I must emote.
What a precious, unforgettable moment. Thank you for sharing it here.
I can’t tell you how much this blessed me. We have a little girl that we’re missing terribly and I love how you all honor Felicity so well. I’m sure she caught that big brother kiss.
I anticipated a cute story, what I got was one that took my breath away and left me with tears welling. ‘Precious’ doesn’t begin to express how beautiful that story is, but it will have to do. What a sweet boy.
I’m sobbing.
Yesterday, my seven-month-old Yohanan fell about 5 feet downward and landed on his head. He was bleeding from at the mouth and I didn’t know at the time it was “merely” from his bitten tongue. As he was softly moaning, drifting in and out of sleep, and we weren’t sure yet whether he was going to be OK, I thought of you — the picture of you holding Felicity. And I thought about my Mom (in-law) who lost my 24-year-old sister-in-law during a car accident.
I am grateful to be holding him today, and soaking in his laughter. Life is all at once so large and so fragile.
Thank you for sharing. =)
Oh, Molly. What a precious gift that moment was.
Oh wow, molly. So many things going on in his little heart for his little sister and every now and then God lets you see a glimpse of it.
Orison of the win. I love that kid even though I haven’t met him yet.
And my comment to Orison is, “Yes, you in fact ARE a prince! One of the rarest kind.”
Precious!
What a wonderful way to express it, “Kissing the Sky”.
We do it so often, too.
That is the most dear story – how sweet how children deal with hardship. That you for sharing with us.
Much love,
B
Oh sweet boy! What a tender big brother. What a gift that he remembers her with you. : ) Makes me cry.
That’s awesome! I love what it means: that Felicity is still an active part of your family, even though she isn’t here physically.
I look forward to “following” you in heaven, when I can hear about all your interactions WITH Felicity!
tears…
what a sweet heart he has – precious!
i love that felicity is such a huge part of your lives. that morrow and orison know and love her. i think sometimes people try to ‘protect’ their kiddos ((and even adults)) from the pain. that maybe if you forget it ever happened, everything would all be better. . .
. . .i feel like oftentimes thats what people want me to do with my broken engagement. like if i pretend my beloved and i never knew and shared life together it wouldn’t hurt. i think facing it and leaning into the pain is the only way to really deal. . .
love this molly. . .love it.
So it could be that I got about negative sleep last night and my emotions have been on the fritz all week, but I sobbed when I read this post. Beyond precious. I am very eager to meet this baby girl.
Aww…what a sweet moment. You’re very blessed. :-)
Ah, sweet tears at the precious words. I love the innocence of babes, they aren’t jaded by life, just say what they feel. It speaks well of you and the way you include Felicity. I can only hope one day HK speaks of Ethan the way Orison speaks of Felicity. Oh how I dream of the day we will be reunited in Heaven and our family will be whole.
Aren’t our children a precious treasure? We adopted two older girls after our fourteen year old son died. Especially one of the girls talks about our son as though she knew him. They have watched old family videos and so they feel as though they did know him. One of my new daughters will always include our son in her counting of the family. She also often says that she “misses” him. It really touches my heart and does make me long for the day when we will be one big family in heaven.
PRICELESS from every angle!!!
Blessings to you all.
Made me cry….
What a perceptive and thoughtful child. I have tears stinging my eyes.
I sure don’t know what Scriptures I’d line up to make the point, but somehow I just believe that when you all meet Felicity, she will already know so much about you; you will discover that she did know (now) how much you are loving her….and it goes without saying, you WILL be able to literally make up for lost time.
So beautiful. He gets it. Really gets it.
What a precious moment and what a sweet boy!
That warms MY heart. Can’t even imagine how it makes you feel. What a special one that Orison is.
I’m a loss mama who was linked to this-beautiful, sounds just like what my 6yr old does with her little sister in heaven :)
JEN
That is incredibly sweet.
oh molly. what a fabulous little man orison is.