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Monday, December 7, 2009

Book Review: Unforgotten Children

Kristie Verret is the author of the new book Unforgotten Children: A Testimony of God's Healing Through Miscarriage.

I have only met Kristie online. In April of this year, I read an article that she had written on Christian Women Online. To my surprise, she replied back to me. Then I think I checked out her blog, she read mine, and we began corresponding via email. Kristie invited me to do a pregnancy loss Bible study with her online. I accepted. (Although, I still have 2 more chapters to do!)

She had told me that she was writing a book about the loss of her two daughters, Elizabeth and Sammi. Although the official release date of Unforgotten Children was December 1, I was able to order a copy early. It is a quick and easy read (not emotionally easy), and I think it will speak to every mom who has lost a child due to miscarriage, still birth, or early infant loss.

Kristie is quite candid about her thoughts and feelings regarding the loss of her two daughters...two beautiful babies born to Heaven. I miscarried last year during the 8th week of my pregnancy. Even though my circumstances were different than Kristie's, I could relate to everything she felt and went through during her own tragedies. In fact, I marked 25 pages in the book where Kristie wrote something that really spoke to me. Some of these pages are marked in more than one place!

Kristie speaks out about how she felt that people belittled her grief because a "miscarriage isn't as bad as losing a real person". She expresses being frustrated with her husband because he didn't seem to understand her feelings. Then there is the questioning of God; "What was the point of that?" Also, there was the feeling of being punished; the anguish of seeing a baby that was the same age as her daughter should have been; trying hard not to cry and actually dreading the tears that she wanted to shed. All of these things are feelings and emotions that pierced my own heart during my grieving process. Naturally, some of these things still haunt me a year later.

If you are a grieving mother, I highly recommend reading Kristie's story. She is doing what I hope to do...using her losses to help other hurting parents. In fact, because I love this book and have been blessed by Kristie's own generosity, I would like to make my readers an offer. If you would like a copy of Unforgotten Children, please let me know via my comments section. I will purchase one copy each for the first 5 people who make a request to me for the book. Don't forget to leave me your email address so that I can contact you in order to get your mailing address. This offer is open until I receive requests from 5 different people.

If you would just like me to pray for you, I will do that, too. Sadly, we are all a part of a club that we never wanted to be in. May God bless and comfort each of us by bringing us together to help one another.

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19

Moms, please allow God to allow Kristie to help you make your way through the desert and to be your stream in the wasteland. He is definitely at work through her!

5 comments:

  1. I thought I was already following this blog. I have joined to follow. You have a wonderful ministry that is much needed. GOD will use both you and Khristi to help many others.
    Hugs, prayers, and love,
    andrea

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  2. Hi Leslie. I saw this posted on FB and had to check it out. I would love to read this book. I've had 3 miscarriages. And tomorrow (12/8) would have been my due date for my latest one. I am immensely grateful for the one that I do have. I too know that one day God will use the pain and the experiences for His glory. If I am a winner of the book, please contact me at seedthoughts @ yahoo . com Blessings!

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  3. I would love a copy of this book. I've suffered four miscarriages, though God blessed me with two beautiful children and I now have an amazing grand baby.

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  4. Leslie,
    I remember the heartbreak of miscarriage. We lost 3 little ones before our children were born. I carried undue guilt for quite a while (I think it's a 'mommy gene'), but God is gracious and heals in His own time. God bless the moms who stop by your blog.

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  5. PLEASE send me a book. I miscarried in my 10th/11th week in January of 2008, and I still find the tears flowing at the oddest times when something reminds me of my baby. I would like to know how Kristie dealt with her loss, as it isn't something talked about among people who haven't been there.

    A friend sent me this link. Thank you for sharing this!

    Niki Nowell
    nikinowell@gmail.com

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