Hannah Hood

Our precious baby Hannah was born February 3rd, and fell asleep in death February 10th, 2003.We never got to take her home from the hospital.She had a chromosome disorder called "Trisomy 18" also called "Edward's Syndrome" (After a doctor Edward discovered it in the '60s).You can learn more about this and other chromosome disorders at www.trisomy.org where we got much of the information I learned while pregnant with Hannah.Only about 5% of these babies live past their first year, but of course, I thought OURS would be the one who surprised the doctors. Our grief is great, but we have the support of loving friends and family, and we fully believe what Jesus promised in John 5:28,29 when he said "Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out." Jesus considers our dead loved ones as "sleeping", because Jesus and God can easily "wake" them up.When he was about to raise up Jairus' little girl from the dead, he told the grieving parents and friends, "Stop weeping, for she did not die, but is sleeping" - Luke 8:52. We are having that scripture engraved onto Hannah's gravestone so that all seeing it know how Jesus feels about our little girl, and how he will soon do the same for her as he did for Jairus' little girl. And we can prove it to ourselves through the scriptures that our loved ones who are now asleep in death, willbe raised up will live here in peace. Psalms 37:29 promises: "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will RESIDE FOREVER UPON IT." Although our hearts are heavy and our sorrow great, we are confident in the hope that we have for the near future: that our precious daughter will be back in our arms here in a cleansed paradise earth, and that God will sustain us until then. - 1 Thessalonians 4:13, and Psalms 55:22. -Jenny and Robert Hood