long last

where to begin?
so much has happened and where to begin, what to write it down, well it's been a FULL ON month to say the least. Never a dull moment in shanghai that is for sure. From the conference in Hong Kong to Mum's visit to my birthday to the most shocking news I have heard in a long time.
That is what is on my mind....so i have to get it out first. And the other stuff, I'll write about later.

Well, two dear foreign friends of mine living in Shanghai, lost their 9 week old baby on Saturday, Valentines Day, from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). It's unbelievably shocking and heart breaking. Totally out of the blue, no cause...
I can't find words to describe it and can't even begin to imagine how they must feel, new parents, in a foreign country, the mother was a new Baha'i too...
I am visiting them this afternoon after work. I dont really know what I'll say but just to be with them and listen to their pain, that is all I think one can do, and offer words from the Writings. I have been searching for quotes and have found some amazing ones, like this from Abdul-Baha:

"Be not grieved at the death of that infant child, for it is placed in trust for thee before thy Lord in His great Kingdom. Verily God will bestow upon thee that whereby thy heart shall be rejoiced and thy breast shall be dilated. Verily thy Lord is compassionate and merciful!"


If you have any other quotations, or poems, or words that I can share with my friends on this theme, it would be greatly greatly appreciated...