Comments on: A year later http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/ What goes around goes around Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:51:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Caleb Cook http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Caleb Cook Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:45:58 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-556 Jared and Darla, I can't think of anything to say except that I praise God for being in control and for loving you through this. May God bless your second child. Caleb Jared and Darla,

I can’t think of anything to say except that I praise God for being in control and for loving you through this. May God bless your second child.

Caleb

]]> By: Furious D http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-554 Furious D Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:30:29 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-554 I'm glad you have another gift on the way, brother. I pray the grief you experienced in the past year will be turned into joy. I wish I could be there with you. Praise God you could be part of my life. I’m glad you have another gift on the way, brother. I pray the grief you experienced in the past year will be turned into joy. I wish I could be there with you. Praise God you could be part of my life.

]]> By: Alan http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Alan Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:08:36 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-555 Thanks for sharing, Jared. You and Darla are in our prayers. Congratulations on expecting! Thanks for sharing, Jared. You and Darla are in our prayers. Congratulations on expecting!

]]> By: Carol http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Carol Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:14:27 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-553 Jared and Darla, I can't help but sit and cry for your pain and your loss and yet celebrate with you as well. Such a huge array of emotions and I know mine do not compair to yours. I love you both so much. My kids adore you as well. Jared and Darla,

I can’t help but sit and cry for your pain and your loss and yet celebrate with you as well.

Such a huge array of emotions and I know mine do not compair to yours.

I love you both so much. My kids adore you as well.

]]> By: Aunt 'Ten http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Aunt 'Ten Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:01:58 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-552 journal entry. march 10, 2006. cole michael mellentine was born today. he was 1 lb., 2 oz. and 12.5 inches long. he was perfect in every way. jared and darla (and all of the rest of us who love them) were feeling like we had no hope. there wasn't really anything good in the world anymore. it's been a sad week. nothing's felt right. it's been an absence of good. hopeless. then You brought hope in ways i never dreamed possible. knowing that, in our sadness, in this depth of hell we've come to know in a short amount of time, we needed neon lights and flashing signs to point us to the good in the world again, you threw hope in our face. just to make sure that we saw it. thank you for hope. hope in the form of a caring nurse named hope who helped bring cole into this world and who provided comfort and love to jared & darla in a way that none of the rest of us could. she touched their lives today in a way that i pray we will never forget. hope in the form of rain. there hasn't been rain here for the last 5 months. it was like the earth needed this as much as we did. it was a reminder of Your care for us. it was a cleansing of sorts. we needed the rain. we need You. someone said this week that it's harder to watch someone that you care about go through this because You give them the extra grace and comfort that they need during this time. the unspoken was that You didn't give it to the rest of us. but You have given grace upon grace to all of us at different times in different ways. this week was a wake up call to me of how fragile life is. but in the midst of it all, there is hope. -- i love you guys. and have been praying like crazy for you this week. journal entry.

march 10, 2006.

cole michael mellentine was born today. he was 1 lb., 2 oz. and 12.5 inches long. he was perfect in every way.

jared and darla (and all of the rest of us who love them) were feeling like we had no hope. there wasn’t really anything good in the world anymore. it’s been a sad week. nothing’s felt right. it’s been an absence of good. hopeless.

then You brought hope in ways i never dreamed possible. knowing that, in our sadness, in this depth of hell we’ve come to know in a short amount of time, we needed neon lights and flashing signs to point us to the good in the world again, you threw hope in our face. just to make sure that we saw it.

thank you for hope.

hope in the form of a caring nurse named hope who helped bring cole into this world and who provided comfort and love to jared & darla in a way that none of the rest of us could. she touched their lives today in a way that i pray we will never forget.

hope in the form of rain. there hasn’t been rain here for the last 5 months. it was like the earth needed this as much as we did. it was a reminder of Your care for us. it was a cleansing of sorts. we needed the rain. we need You.

someone said this week that it’s harder to watch someone that you care about go through this because You give them the extra grace and comfort that they need during this time. the unspoken was that You didn’t give it to the rest of us. but You have given grace upon grace to all of us at different times in different ways.

this week was a wake up call to me of how fragile life is.

but in the midst of it all, there is hope.

–

i love you guys. and have been praying like crazy for you this week.

]]> By: Mark Mason http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-551 Mark Mason Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:39:16 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-551 Thanks for making me cry at work! You guys are inspirational, praise be to God for placing y'all in my life. Thanks for making me cry at work!
You guys are inspirational, praise be to God for placing y’all in my life.

]]> By: Noah http://mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Noah Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:38:27 +0000 http://www.mellentine.com/2007/03/11/a-year-later/#comment-550 I've been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to think of something appropriate to say. Nothing comes to mind. I had some inkling of this from your earlier blog entries, but obviously it's not the kind of thing I would ask about. I don't believe in a higher power, but I imagine it's helpful to take comfort in faith. I do know it helps to talk about it. I went through a (not nearly as traumatic) experience around the same time, and I bottled it up instead of venting, which only made it worse. I've never lost anyone close to me. My grandpa died when I was at ASU, but I barely knew him. So it's ridiculous for me to think I can empathize with what you and Darla went through. But if you ever need someone to talk to, you know where to find me. And best wishes for the future, even if it means losing our outfielder for a while. :) I’ve been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to think of something appropriate to say. Nothing comes to mind. I had some inkling of this from your earlier blog entries, but obviously it’s not the kind of thing I would ask about.

I don’t believe in a higher power, but I imagine it’s helpful to take comfort in faith. I do know it helps to talk about it. I went through a (not nearly as traumatic) experience around the same time, and I bottled it up instead of venting, which only made it worse.

I’ve never lost anyone close to me. My grandpa died when I was at ASU, but I barely knew him. So it’s ridiculous for me to think I can empathize with what you and Darla went through. But if you ever need someone to talk to, you know where to find me.

And best wishes for the future, even if it means losing our outfielder for a while. :)

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