Thank you for expressing my heart for my babies in heaven – very healing – lovely
Before We Said Hello Devotional/Journal - Physical Copy (Book includes code to download songs Before We Said Hello & Heaven's Playground free)
Before We Said Hello book
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Before We Said Hello is designed to support parents grieving pregnancy loss or infant loss. Author and singer Becky Nordquist says, “You are not alone. Your baby’s life matters.”
The book includes 30 devotions to comfort and encourage those who’ve experienced pregnancy or infant loss. There is space for journaling after each devotional. The book also includes 13 stories from contributors, both female and male, who’ve been wounded by this “invisible grief.”
Finally, the book comes with a QR code and link to receive the gentle, healing songs Before We Said Hello and Heaven’s Playground, sung by author Becky Nordquist at no additional charge.
May these words and this music honor the life of your child.
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Before We Said Hello
Before we Said Hello
Words & Music by Steve Siler
We were so excited
What anticipation
We’d prepared a place for you inside our hearts
Oh, how you were wanted
We had plans and dreams
Then in an instant it all came apart
Like a flower that was crushed before it could bloom
Like a story just begun that ended much too soon
We grieve love interrupted that has no place to go
We said goodbye before we said hello
They say you’re in Heaven
and someday I’ll see you
But that doesn’t fill the ache I’m feeling now
Your life was so special
Such a miracle
Now life goes on but I just don’t know how
Like a flower that was crushed before it could bloom
Like a story just begun that ended much too soon
We grieve the child who’s living in our hearts but not our home
We said goodbye before we said hello
You are my angel and we’ll never be apart
I may not hold in my arms but I’ll still hold you in my heart
Like a flower that was crushed before it could bloom
Like a story just begun that ended much too soon
We grieve the hopes cut short
The memories we’ll never know
Why? Oh why?
Did we have to say goodbye before we said hello
© 2019 Silerland Music (Administered by ClearBox Rights ASCAP)
Heaven's Playground
Heaven’s Playground
Words & Music by Becky Nordquist, Steve Siler, & Tony Wood
Sometimes I imagine
a sea of shining faces
Warm sunshine and blue skies
and children running free
And suddenly I’m smiling
to see you there with Jesus
to know you’re home and happy
means everything to me
That’ll you’ll never know pain
You’ll only know love
You’ll never know tears
in the land of joy above
Where laughter is the only sound
on Heaven’s playground
Sometimes when I miss you
sorrow casts a shadow
I linger with the sadness
and feel the things I feel
But then I remember
in this very moment
You’re living in His presence
and forever you are healed
and you’ll never know pain
You’ll only know love
You’ll never know tears
in the land of joy above
Where laughter is the only sound
on Heaven’s playground
The only way these arms could let you go
is to know whose arms would take you in
The one who loved you first will hold you
‘til I hold you again
You’ll never know pain
You’ll only know love
You’ll never know tears
in the land of joy above
Where laughter is the only sound
Where laughter is the only sound
on Heaven’s playground
© 2019 Ninety Forty Ten Music/ Silerland Music (Administered by The Copyright Company) / Curb Wordspring Music LLC / Tony Wood Songs (SESAC)
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A precious gift of love that will help you find hope, comfort, and peace for your soul. Sensitive, thought provoking, raw and honest, engaging, encouraging, affirming and convicting Before We Said Hello provides a path towards your healing.
Joseph Northcut, Director of Church Resources, Church Initiative.Org (Creator of GriefShare.Org)
Absolutely beautiful!! This is perfect!! I shared it with a friend who lost her little guy about a month ago. I had a miscarriage in between my 2 youngest and it really puts everything into words!
Kristen
This puts words to my ache . . . finally