I Will Carry You

I have been working on getting another post up, but just haven't gotten there yet.  In the meantime, I wanted to share a song with you.

As I encounter songs, poems, and excerpts of books, I keep thinking that I wish I would've known about this before Isaiah's service so we could've shared it there.  But I realize that the service isn't the only way to share with others...so thank you for reading here, my friends - and allowing me to share my heart with you.

This song - I will Carry You - has been so meaningful to me the last few weeks.  The words keep reminding me of the blessing it was to carry Isaiah for 9 months...the blessing it was that God formed him...the blessing that Matt and I were chosen for that purpose - so that Isaiah could be used for His purposes.

My favorite words are these - which come at the end of the song- spoken from God to us:

"I've shown her photographs of time beginning
Walked her through the parted seas
Angel lullabies, no more teary eyes
Who could love her like this?"

I keep asking myself - who could love him more than we could?  The only answer is the one who knit him together - our Lord.  There is such a peace knowing that Isaiah is being loved - more deeply than we can understand - because I just can't imagine anyone loving him more than we do.

Though it is so hard to utter the words that I will have to live the rest of my life here without my sweet boy, I WILL carry the weight of who Isaiah is for the rest of my life...in some ways his heart still beats here.


Maybe many of you have already heard this song, but if you haven't, I wanted to share it with you today.  Just click on the link.   (The lyrics and link to the story behind the song are also listed below.)


 I Will Carry You - Youtube Link


I Will Carry You
by Selah

There were photographs I wanted to take
Things I wanted to show you
Sing sweet lullabies, wipe your teary eyes
Who could love you like this?

People say that I am brave but I'm not
Truth is I'm barely hanging on
But there's a greater story
Written long before me
Because He loves you like this

[Chorus]
I will carry you
While your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
Through the coming years
I will carry you
All my life
And I will praise the One who's chosen me
To carry you

Such a short time
Such a long road
All this madness
But I know
That the silence
Has brought me to His voice
And He says ...

I've shown her photographs of time beginning
Walked her through the parted seas
Angel lullabies, no more teary eyes
Who could love her like this?

[Chorus]
I will carry you
While your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
Through the coming years
I will carry you
All my life
And I will praise the One who's chosen me
To carry you


Want to learn more about the story behind this song?
 Audrey's Story