The Passing Of A Little Girl

Why Lord, why ?

“Why Lord, why ?” Those were the words written on everyone’s faces during the memorial of this beautiful five-year-old girl.

To put you in context, last week I’ve stumbled upon the live presentation of the celebration of life of a little girl. “Oh no, how sad”, I thought to myself. I didn’t know this precious soul or her family, but it deeply touched my heart. A few seconds later, I clicked on the live video…

She looked as if she was sleeping

There she was, laying in her white casket as if she was sound asleep. Dressed all in white, and a tiny flower crown resting on her small forehead. She was only five years old at the time of her passing, but I don’t know what caused it. I don’t know if it was due to an accident, illness or else, they didn’t say. “Why Lord, why?” Those words were echoing throughout the service. My thoughts and heart immediately went out to her poor mother and father, who unexpectedly lost their only baby girl. How many tears could they have left in them? I couldn’t imagine their pain and sorrow.

“Well, in all honesty, I kind of do. For the very first time in my life, I went through a very similar situation a few months ago and I am still trying to navigate through it all and process life without this dearly loved one. He is on my mind every single minute of each day, I will never forget him…“

Only five years on this earth, so much to give, so much to see, so much to offer, so much to live for. Before the ceremony started, they played the video footage of this little girl’s last birthday party, which was only two months ago… There she was, a beautiful little girl. She seemed so happy, bubbly and full of energy, as she blew the five little candles on top of her colourful birthday cake. While her family joyfully sang “Happy Birthday” to her, she was smiling from ear to ear with her many gifts surrounding the room. She was loved. “Why Lord, why?”…

Words of encouragement

Back to the ceremony. The pastor finally came to the pulpit and shared beautiful and powerful words of encouragement. Those words gave me great comfort and strengthened my own little faith. “How so” you may ask? Simply because the words came straight from the Word of God, the Bible. True words of hope that helped me through my own personal grief and battle. I would like to share with you the words he shared, in the hopes that they will uplift your soul if you are going through this as well or simply to remind you how wonderful our God is!

Carefully read these verses…

God is our Creator, even before we were born, he had already determined our days on earth. Each of us has a specific number of years allotted to us. This little girl’s number was five years and two months. Not one more day or one less. Her passing was not a surprise to God. He knew, and let it happened. He knew the great grief it was going to cause her family. Yes, God could have prevented her death if this was His will. However, He had already allotted the fixed number of days for her little journey here on planet earth, before her conception. God does not take pleasure in our sufferings and does not want us to suffer. But when sin entered this world, the immediate consequence was that we were all going to experience death in a way or another.

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 6:23

The pastor went on and said, had the parents known from the beginning that their precious baby would be taken away from them after five short years, they absolutely would not have been able to accept it. It would have been unbearable. Then he continued on and said, do you believe they would have preferred for her not to born at all and never exist rather than to have to experience the pain and suffering they are living in right now? The answer is obvious, of course not…

He does whatever pleases Him

Then he read those three verses and emphasized on the last one Our God is in heaven; He does whatever pleases Him. Let these words sink in for a moment…

Who are we to tell God what is right or what is wrong. Aren’t we His creatures? He created us, He knows what is best, He has His divine reasons and He knows what He is doing. We will have the answers to all our questionings when we finally stand before Him and spend eternity with him. Some of us will live over 80 years and others just like this little girl will have a short passage on this earth. Whatever happens, He is God, the Great I Am.

"God said to Moses, “I am who I am"
-Exodus 3:14

These words gave me peace. It gave me peace for what I’m currently going through and also gave me peace for this baby girl’s fate. I hope this message brought you some answers and tranquillity. My sisters, please keep these parents in your prayers. They have a younger boy who keeps asking them where his older sister is… and the mother is pregnant, expecting their third child…

May God keep them, you and me.