{"id":350,"date":"2006-09-02T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/09\/02\/five-years\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T12:21:08","slug":"five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago today was a very happy day for my family. It had been a difficult labor for Kelli and we were unhappy with the substitute doctor called in to deliver holiday weekend babies. But when the moment came, the birth was beautiful and amazing, unlike with our previous two sons. That was early in the morning and we had the rest of the day to enjoy our son. Of course, we didn’t know that it was a special day. Timothy lived for 35 days, but it was only his first day that we could hold him without a variety of tubes connected to him.<\/p>\n

There are of course a lot of difficult thoughts and emotions in a time like that, but one that I kept thinking of was what his life would have been like. His four siblings are all different and no doubt he too would have had a unique mix of personality traits. What would he have looked like? More like his mom or dad? What would have been his favorite things to do? How would he have related to his older brothers and younger sisters? Questions like these are quite normal I think for anyone who loses someone young in age. But they come again to mind today, when we would have celebrated Timothy’s fifth birthday.<\/p>\n

We do not doubt God, who sometimes gives 80 years and sometimes gives 35 days. “When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:15-16).<\/p>\n

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Luke (8), Mark (6), Bethany (4), Katie (2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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