Have you ever lost your child and your heart
practically stopped?
Many of us have turned around and
one of our children are missing!
We automatically go in a panic!
And when we find them even if
it's only a few seconds, we are
feeling a lot of emotions!
Well, that's what happened to our
family back in 2004.
My family was at Mass and church
was getting near the end. I remember
taking my youngest two children to communion
with me. My oldest daughter,
was also taking communion and helping me
with the children. At that time our youngest
daughter, Rachel was
four years old and our youngest son was one.
This church is massive with
cathedral style structure!
my oldest daughter and I return at the back of
the church into the Cry room.
We begin to get my youngest children's
things ready, such as their toys and
books, to place in the diaper bag.
While we were busy Rachel
went out of the cry room and into the
large foyer where the huge
exit doors are. I remember a couple
leaving church and I continued staying
busy with my one year old son.
Meanwhile, the communion is still
going on but near the end. my oldest
daughter
goes out to the foyer to get her little
sister back into the cry room, but she
was nowhere to be found!
I wasn't quite nervous yet, but
I told my oldest daughter to look into our
family's pew. She went to look,
came back and said, Rachel
wasn't there!
I begin to panic!
At this time the church has
completed communion and
the last song will soon take
place.
My mind is going a mile a minute!
My oldest daughter was in tears and trying to
look in different areas in the
back of the church.
I remember seeing the couple
that left earlier and thinking
Rachel
might have slipped through
the castle like exit doors!
My oldest daughter goes to our family
still in the pew and tells them
Rachel is gone and we can't
find her!
This church has a huge parking
lot of every direction and all I
could think of, that my four
year old
was going to get ran over!
She had been missing for
about 15 minutes by now and
the church members were
already leaving.
I began to panic and my oldest
daughter
is in tears!
My husband, my boys and
my oldest daughter was outside of the church
looking for Rachel!
They looked in the garden that
she and her little brother like to run around,
but she wasn't there.
I remember
telling a couple about her missing
and they asked what she was wearing!
I could barely speak but managed
to explain her flowered jacket with
flowered pants and her dark hair.
By then the church is completely
empty and I am a wreck!
Finally! One of the boys spotted her in a
far off distance, playing on a
"Little Tikes" playset in someone's
backyard!
I will never forget seeing her carried,
and brought to me around the corner
of the church!
She knew she had done something wrong
and she was crying! Of course, me and
her big sister was crying when we finally
had her back in our arms!
We talk about this story from time
to time and Rachel remembers
some of it! I thank the Lord for
protecting and watching over her.
I often think of Blessed Mary and
St. Joseph, losing Jesus for three days!
I am sure Blessed Mary was in a panic
and Joseph had to keep her calm.
They found Jesus in the temple speaking
among the priest and rabbis!
Luke Ch.2 V- 49-51 (And He said to them,
"Why is it that you were looking for Me?
Did you not know that I had to be in My
Father's house?"
And He went down with them and came to
Nazareth, and He continued in subjection
to them, and His mother treasured all
these things in her heart.
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Boy Jesus Lost In Temple / 2-2017
