HAYDEN

Ten little fingers, ten little toes…
We counted them.
How could things have gone this way?

Were you ours to borrow…
..His to keep?

Reason tells us this love is eternal.
Spirit tells us though the body fails,
The soul lives on.

Hayden…
Precious embodiment of perfect love.
Deep is our gratitude to have known you.
…Altered forever for the good,
The foundation upon which we stand,
…By the touch of a tiny hand.

Heaven holds a piece of us tonight.

God grant us the capacity to bear the sorrow,
And when these eyes rest upon
Your sweet face again…
And they shall -- as God lives.
May He grant our hearts the capacity

To hold the joy.

Victoria - 1/2/2007

In loving memeory of Haden Shell

Painting: Candle #2 -by Justin