Love and Loss Coexist. You cannot have one without the other

Although I'm free from all people, I make myself a slave to all people, to recruit ... yet I have made myself everyone's slave, that I might win more men to Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:19

I started watching a PBS series called the Mid wives. I finally decided to watch the series that had captivated my wife's attention. There is a lesson I want to share in this week's blogpost. This series takes place in lower east side London in an area where destitute and homeless people lived. The are several nurses who could have worked any other glamourous places who decided to work at the charity ward, a place where abused woman came to give birth or other medical needs.


In the story I watched last night was a 15 year old girl who's baby was taken away from her after her birth because of a law that stipulated that a child cannot raise a baby. She became pregnant through a sexual encounter as a paid prostitute because she had no other skills. In the next scene is the story of a young married couple who have a new born child. One night, a unknown woman came and took the child and brought it to the 15 year old and said "she is yours to keep". You can imagine the deep, deep overwhelming despair of the couple that experience this tragedy. Enter in the nurse who knew this married couple, as well as the 15 year old. One day, a bobby came to her and the two of them walked down a darkened hallway into a large dark room where the destitute often were. The nurse called out the 15 year old by name and gently walked closer to her with encouraging words that helped her see that this baby belongs to another family that is taken great care of her. She gives up the child with momentary tears. In the final scene, this same nurse midwife is sitting at the gravesite of a Great war veteran that she had provided wound care to for many weeks. One day she went to his apartment to find it empty and found out that he was sent to the Charity nursing home where he sat all day with not one person helping him because they were short staff. His health went decline pretty rapidly until he had to have his limbs below the knee amputated. She is now at his grave site saying goodbye to her friend and patient.


Life is filled with love and loss. You cannot have one without the other. Loss and the emotions we feel are the result of the love you had for the one who died. The bible assures us that Christ alone is our cornerstone.


Our soul belongs to God.