Røsvik's Writings

Hi everyone!

This is just to let you all know that we've gotten a new blog, so we won't be using this one anymore. We'll keep it running since there are 3 years of pictures and posts still here, but we just won't be using it to update you anymore.

The new one is : http://markusandsarah.blogspot.com/ and we'll be in touch!

-Sarah-

Well now that all the 'drama' with the flights and busyness is over, we sort of crashed when we were able to stop running. Now Levi and I are sick with fevers and bad colds (we've had like 4 colds each this winter...it's been a sick year) and Markus is supposed to drive the big group here down to Manila tomorrow and stay there for a few days. The kids and I should be ok, but sure wish there was a grandma nearby to send Emma to!!!

Something really sad that happened the other day was that Rosalyn, a lady who comes to our weekly Bible study, lost her newborn baby when she was only a few hours old. Janine Faith (the baby) was 10lbs, which is huge for people whose babies are normally between 4 and 5 lbs at birth. The birth was very hard and from what we can assume, the baby was seriously injured during and then died shortly after. Otherwise she was beautiful and healthy - it's so sad that it had to be this way.

Rosalyn and her husband have one boy who is 12, and have been trying since they had him to have another. She's suffered numerous miscarriages (her latest was last year when she lost twins at 6 months gestation) and it's been a long, hard road for them.

This morning was the funeral and I joined everyone from the neighborhood as we walked behind the coffin about 1 mile to the cemetary. There was a short service followed by singing and then the burial. Rosalyn, the mother, wasn't able to come. She suffered several injuries during the birth and is quite weak.

We've heard conflicting stories on what went wrong. The night the baby died, several ladies from our Bible study came up to tell me and to ask if Markus would help move the baby's body from the hospital to the house. They said that the labor was very hard and Rosalyn had asked for a c-section, but the doctors refused because they thought she didn't have the money. (A c-section would cost about $800.) The stories the doctors are passing around is that they wanted to do the c-section but Rosalyn's blood pressure was too high. Then we heard that it was such a hard birth that the doctors had to choose between saving Rosalyn's life or the baby's life. They say that they had to break the baby's tiny arms in order for her to come out... She lived for a few hours, but was very weak and finally died when she couldn't breathe anymore.

On Friday a couple of ladies came up to ask me if they could have some scrap wood to build her coffin from. We went to look for some when another missionary who is visiting up here said that he wanted to build it for them - and that meant so much to them. He made the tiny coffin so beautiful.

As a mother, my heart breaks for the family and I can't imagine their grief. We went to see them Friday night and they had the little baby dressed in one of Emma's prettiest dresses that I had given to someone to give to them in case they needed something to bury her in, laying in the middle of the room for everyone to see. Seeing her in Emma's dress really affected me - firstly because it made it all so real because I vividly remember Emma wearing it so many times, but also because for me it was just one out of so many dresses that Emma has, but for them it was so precious because they didn't have anything else pretty to bury her in. She was a beautiful baby - her face was perfect and all her little fingers and toes were there. I kept asking myself what purpose God had in allowing this to happen - for Rosalyn to have the added grief of knowing that things almost went right.

Please pray for Rosalyn and her husband and their son. The husband is not a believer and today at the funeral I could see that his sorrow runs very deep. I'm praying that through this God will bring him to Himself. Also pray for Rosalyn physically - has a lot to heal from, physically as well as emotionally.

Anyway I am still sorting through my own emotions and thoughts about it all, but do know that God is good and He loved little Janine more than anyone did and I pray that He can use this to bring glory to His name and bring her family to Him.

-Sarah-

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