In a recent thread there was a discussion about miscarriages. With this in mind, I wanted to give a link to a beautiful article in the most recent issue of America Magazine: A Hidden Sorrow by Christopher Pramuk. A sample:
I know that as a man my experiences are very different from those of my wife or sister or of any woman who has felt the anguish of life’s perishing deep in her body. We hurt in different ways. Following our second miscarriage, I anguished above all for my wife, for her bleeding body, her broken spirit; I anguished for myself, too, for my inability to understand or to help. We had already discussed names, and the nursery was nearly ready. This pregnancy had felt like a gift, a persistent prayer answered. Yet God, it seemed, was not willing. Why?
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