Comments on: Watching for Breath

By: Maree Dee

Maree Dee — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:01:51 +0000

There is nothing like a sleeping baby. Thank you for sharing. You brought joy to my life—remembering those sacred breaths. Maree

By: Lois Flowers

Lois Flowers — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:41:17 +0000

Aw, Lisa … what a precious post. Just the other weekend, after a difficult week, our daughter Molly wanted to sleep on the floor in our room one night. She was still asleep when we got up, and it took my breath away to watch her face. “Maybe some things don’t change at all.” Amen, my friend.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:20:03 +0000

Oh Lisa, so precious, I did the same thing! And in fact I still do, but in a different way. I watch my “baby” with her baby girl, I watch her try her very best to be the best mom she can, yet wondeer if she is enough as a single mom. I watch her falter, catch her breath…and then inhale one more time, leaning into the hard places.

By: Pam Ecrement

Pam Ecrement — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:30:47 +0000

I so recall those days as mom and grandma, Lisa! What a poignant reflection! Beautiful!!

By: Carlie

Carlie — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:00:32 +0000

This is beautiful, Lisa! I think no matter how grown they are we are always, in some way, watching for breath for our children and loved ones. Watching for some sign that they are alive and well and that there’s hope for more life, full life, renewed life. God is so gracious to send us that assurance in the rise and fall of a baby’s chest or the phone call that comes from across the seas.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:12:35 +0000

My “babies” are now 7, 5, and 3, but I still go in each night before I go to bead and watch them breathing. I’m not sure how old they’ll be before I stop doing this!

By: Karen Friday

Karen Friday — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:19:39 +0000

Love this beautiful piece, Lisa. What a sweet story. I also used to watch for my kids’s chest to rise to be reassured of breaths taken. Same with grand babies, peaking in to check, almost holding my breath to watch for their breath.

By: Suzanne aka Sister_Su

Suzanne aka Sister_Su — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:35:43 +0000

Your post reminds me of the song “Sunrise Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof. Just today, I was thinking about how the years when my daughters were babies seem a whole other lifetime away. They grow up so fast!

By: Michele Morin

Michele Morin — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:45:06 +0000

So wonderful that we get a Round 2 with grandbabies!

By: Debbie Wilson

Debbie Wilson — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:57:02 +0000

I remember my husband coming home and wanting to wake our babies when they slept. “Will you take care of them after they awake?” I’d ask. He was content to watch them sleep. How precious to watch a sleeping baby.