Hi  me again,  been awhile, I read through this  posts, and while i haven't been posting my drama's I have been reading many posts and you have all been doing a marvelous job and I THANKYOU for continuing the beautiful pictures, the splendor of the cafe, the openness of your heart strings, the funniness and humor.
I thought about posting the following links, then I opted not to, then I thought well maybe they could help someone, or bring encouragement, or give hope or all the above so here they are:

Hopeful Words for Broken-Hearted Parents

LINK:   http://www.gty.org/Radio/   Main link
http://www.gty.org/Radio/Archive   All 3 parts on this link
 

http://www.gty.org/Shop/Audio+Lessons/80-242  PART I
http://www.gty.org/Shop/Audio+Lessons/80-243    PART II

I hope the links open for you when clicked on as the message is truly inspirational, encouraging, uplifting and many of you have read my woes trying to deal with Austin Gone Too Soon, and seems like i need daily reinforcing, and I also thought I would leave you a song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74CNUExD4I8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw0ZdHprdjk

Much Love and Prayers
Xanadue

The Gift of Austin
http://www.totsites.com/tot/babyaustinajr
WLAP, Austin's mommy
http://www.musicalcreations.biz/samples.html

Dear Xanadue,
 
Thank you for wishing to share materials that have been helpful to you! Unfortunately, the links are not working for me.
 
Comfort and peace to you,
Much love,
Edda

Peace and joy!

Hildegard


Dear Xanadue,
 
Thank you for wishing to share materials that have been helpful to you! Unfortunately, the links are not working for me.
 
Comfort and peace to you,
Much love,
Edda

If you click and it does not open, copy and paste into your browser at the top and that would be a secondary way, also if you right click your mouse at the link you can have a choice to open in new window or tab. Does this one work?
http://www.gty.org/Shop/Audio+Lessons/80-242

http://www.gty.org/Radio/

The above is the main page and then click on radio tab where you can choose the message
09/01/2009 The Salvation of Babies Who Die, Part 2 08/31/2009 The Salvation of Babies Who Die, Part 1
Finally if those don't work and you would like to hear or share with a friend, there is always the very long way:
Google  Grace to You  click radio and again it will bring the current and then just below is radio links then daily archive.
I am sorry the link didn't work, and Thank You for responding.
May you have a Blessed Labor Day
Xanadue

The Gift of Austin
http://www.totsites.com/tot/babyaustinajr
WLAP, Austin's mommy
http://www.musicalcreations.biz/samples.html

Thank you, Xanadue! I tried the links in the secod post and they do work!
 
Love,
Edda

Peace and joy!

Dearest Xanadue
 
Hello it's really  nice to see you here ,I hope
your days are becoming more bearable .
I think of you daily and your precious little
Austin too.
 
 
I only read the first link and not all of it
because this made me retreat..
 
One more question. If infants are saved when
they die, by what means are they saved? If
those who are retarded, mentally retarded,
mentally disabled, dysfunctional and therefore
in the same category as an infant would be in
 the condition of not having a capability to
understand matters of salvation, if they are
saved when they die, by what means are they
saved? By what means?
 
It really makes me so sad to think that anyone
could even ask a question like this.
I was always lead to believe that my own child
who I guess was 'mentally disabled' would of
course go to the same place any 'normal' child
goes to.I am not sure, but I felt all children who
were born with an illness and passed on would
be free from this illness in Heaven.Is this not what
anyone would want to hold on to.
 
 
 
The songs are really lovely Xanadue
 
thank you for your endless prayers ,warm
wishes and blessings..
 
 
Sandra xx
 ~ 
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

 
Today when I went out from my home, walking dawn the street there was an ambulance with lights and those horriblle sounds driving very fast towards hospital , I felt very sad as I remembered a hard day when my son was in ambulance which took him away to hospital and never came back home...
It hits me right to my heart and I felt I will cry in the middle of the street.I put my eyes dawn and saw a little miracle sign just in front my feet :
    
 
I could not believe my eyes, I took camera which was in my bag and took a snap.
I felt like my Goran said to me: "Don't cry mom, I am with you allways!"
I took a ladybird in my hand and put her in a grass...

"Don't cry mom, I am with you allways!"

 
This is so true Buba
 
 ~ 
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Buba! It's amazing isn't it? Goran must love you so much.
 
today, after I saw the butterfly I too looked down and saw....3 little white feathers, one after the other.
 
Little messages to lift our spirits.
 
Love,
Jude ♥

Love is the only way

Little messages to lift our spirits.

Yes dear Jude !

Dearest Buba,
I can't even imagine how you must have felt and probably feel everytime you hear this.
It sounds like the severe heart stab returns.  Yet before it could completely take hold of you, there was your Lady Bug. What a wonderful gift from Goran.  Yes, dear one, your Goran is ALWAYS with you.
May I ask a little favor of you that was learned a long time ago. Whenever you hear these ambulances, might it be possible to say a little prayer for the person in the ambulance and
that person's family.  You truly know how very much someone praying for you at times like
those would mean.

You are truly so wonderfully open to allowing the Holy One and Goran to use special little signs to help heal you.  May you continue to always be open to the healing that Goran and the Holy One have for you.

Hugs and prayers,
Betty

Imenuff


Whenever you hear these ambulances, might it be possible to say a little prayer for the person in the ambulance and
that person's family.  You truly know how very much someone praying for you at times like those would mean.

 
Funny you should mention this.
 
 Once my sister was hit by a taxi (she was 8 and my parents were away visiting Europe : Scandinavia, USSR...) and taken to hospital in an ambulance (she is okay now).
 
I saw the ambulance and my aunt's face clearly visible through the window. My chin hit the pavement (figuratively speaking). I still remember how I felt . Ever since that day I am sad when I see an ambulance in "code mode" (siren, red lights and all) I always say a prayer for the person in it, the attendants (running through red lights  can be dangerous) and the family.
 
So I guess I have an idea how you feel, Buba... I wish I could give you a big, big hug!
 
We are with you in your sadness.
 
It is good to be able to communicate with people all over the world! ♥
 
 

Oh Buba,
my heart is broken . . .

Little messages to lift our spirits.

yes,
indeed they do
with love . . .
   ♥
I wish that I could give you a hug . . .

everything counts... ♥

Dear Buba,
 
The sound of sirens do bring up all sorts of memories. I am sorry that you had such an experience that reminded you so vividly of Goran. I am glad you did receive a sign from him that brought you a little comfort!
 
For me sirens remind me of my childhood when they meant air-raids and everything associated with them. Once we had a high school class reunion many years later and took a trip together. The noon day sirens went off and everyone dropped silent. We didn't have to say anything, we knew what everyone felt.
 
Much love and warm hugs,
Edda

Peace and joy!

Dear Buba,
(and everyone who comes to read this),

As I keep getting older I am more and more grateful for collecting positive (!) memories connected with certain objects. If you have ever read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry´s enchanting "Little Prince" you will know that he Little Prince, before leaving his friend, says, "Whenever you´ll see a field of golden wheat you´ll be reminded of me and the color of my hair..." In this way I have - through you - come to think of you and Sandra whenever I spot a ladybird or a little white feather... (when before meeting the two of you they had no special significance for me).

Let me give you a warm hug, and then ask you to go to www.2u.ie  in the course of today!

Dear Betty,
Thank you for pointing to the possibility of saying a little prayer for the one in the ambulance. This has been my practice for years...

Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

Dear Betty, Thank you for pointing to the possibility of saying a little prayer for the one in the ambulance. This has been my practice for years...

 
 
 
Mine too!
 
I too think of Buba and Sandra now, when ever I see ladybirds or feathers.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

"Whenever you´ll see a field of golden wheat you´ll be reminded of me and the color of my hair..."

This is one of my very favorite books of all time . . .
so beautifully written
and so full of simple wisdom . . .
I have kept my copy of 'The Little Prince' with me
for all these many years . . .
even though I have had to leave so much behind
it has stayed with me
tattered and worn 
with love . . .
sparrow

everything counts... ♥

..and here it is ... mine book in Serbian language...

Dear fans of "The Little Prince"
you won't believe me when I tell you I have only recently even heard of this story!!!
There was a production on TV of it a few years ago and I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, but it was wonderful. (as you know! )Amazon are advertising the fact that a DVD will be available soon, so I must keep an eye out for it.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

. . . and here is my copy . . .
coffee stains and all . . .
rather like the velveteen rabbit,
well used
and well loved . . .
   ♥
 

everything counts... ♥

WOW! The same picture on the facing page!
We all have many things in common,
even we live so far away!I love internet! 
 

ps. That is the new tablecloth I made!

It is lovely Sparrow!

You can call me crazy one, but looking at the picture of grapes, I posted in Hello thread, a few minutes ago,I spoted ladybug!
Look if you do not believe me:

Detail from picture:
 

Sometimes I don't know what to think...

I have it too, I had it for years (in French). I used to read it to my children. There is very, very profound stuff in that book.
 
I cannot locate it now, it is probably still in a box from when we moved here in 2008.
 
I have not unpacked a lot of boxes because the garage where they are was flooded sometimes just a little, sometimes a lot, 9 times since we moved here.
 
All the stress I got...

I will have to get out my copy of The Little Prince out again.  It's been a llllloooonnnngggg time. 
Sparrow, Dear,  I well remember one nine day directed retreat that had The Velveteen Rabbit as it basis and there was never a lapse for meditative material.
Dearest Buba, you are definitely NOT crazy.  With so many sirens going by, it seems so
obvious that Goran wants you to KNOW how much he is with you and surrounding you with his love.  Bless you for living in the present moment enough to notice!

 

Buba dear,
I think you carry ladybugs in your pockets
for picture taking . . .

everything counts... ♥

Buba dear, I think you carry ladybugs in your pockets for picture taking . . .

Dear Sparrow, I think the same ....
From todays visit to a ladybug's garden:tiny baby-ladybug,from my "pocket collection"...

 

Thank you my dear tea-friend, the picture is beautiful!
and this poem so touching and sad

I am sorry Buba I can't mend your heart.
 
 ~ 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

But the wonderful thing is that you are trying!Thank you!
I do not know is this a ladybug's season, but these are pictures I took
this morning in my morning walk; I saw 4 ladybugs in the same bush with flowers,
in the school yard near my home:

  Closer... two on the same flower ( and an ant!)

...and closer... 

  third one...
 
  4 -th one....

So precious Buba thank you...
 ~ 
 
well apart from that yuckie ant
 
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Dear Buba . . .
I think that your Goran
is still very much alive in your heart
with much love for you . . .
sparrow
(((((((♥)))))))

everything counts... ♥

Dear Buba,
I tend to agree with Sparrow. I haven't seen any ladybirds this year that I can remember. they are all coming to see you!
 
Love,
Jude

Love is the only way

Dear One,Is it possible all the ladybirds that you are finding have a dual purpose--first, to let you know how very much you are held in Goran's love and how close he is to you; and secondly, perhaps you keep finding them because he also wants you to know how proud he is of you for pursuing your family heritage, with  the ladybirds there to encourage you to develop this heritage more and more.  May you continue to find the special signs for the result of your "finds" are a gift of beauty to us all.

Yesterday is gone forever.Tomorrow may not come. Live Fully each moment today. Look for Good Things that Happen to you Every Day.

Thank you Sparrow,Jude and Betty for your kind words and your friendship ,too...

I was painting today with grey color the outside of window,when I spotted some little bug wigwag with it's legs and "glued" with it's back at wet colored surface...
I took a wooden stick and save her,it was a ladybug!Poor one got grey spots!
I thought about how to remove color from her back,thinking she will not be able to fly, but she flied on the curtain:
  
 
 
After some time she was gone. I hope she is safe...

Dear Buba,
 
I wish everyone was taking care of all living things with your tender loving care!
Ladybugs are so special to you and you to them!
 
Much love,
Edda

Peace and joy!

 
Thank you dear Edda for all your kindness!
 

Dear Buba,

I agree with Edda: your loving care for all living creatures - not only for ladybugs, which, I am sure, are a sign from your dear Goran - is very touching. It reminds me of a quote by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy:

Rid yourself of everything that prevents you from connecting with all living creatures. Try to strengthen this connection as much as you can.

With Love,
Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

Dear Buba,
Your Ladybug looks as if she has encountered someone doing some painting! Maybe she will stay with you for the winter.
 
I really agree with your quote Juliana.
 
Love,
Jude

Love is the only way

Thank you dear Juliana and Jude for your kind words,
sending love your way
Buba,Goran's mom