I've heard

this song before, but never from the beginning - until yesterday. So I had no idea it was titled "Glory Baby" until the radio announcer gave a brief introduction to it, explaining that a listener had called and requested it played for what would have been her child's fifth birthday.

And I lost it. I really tried not to, as I was driving to pick G up from MDO at the time. But my emotions were already on the surface thanks to a self-imposed mini-marathon of "Say Yes to the Dress" and a FB post from a fellow MOPS mom who gave birth to twin girls six months ago, knowing she'd have to say goodbye to one of them almost immediately.

I'll confess that in my daily life, Orison does not come to mind as often as (s)he used to. In fact, unless an issue or person somehow immediately impacts my daily life with two young and therefore demanding boys, it doesn't get much of my thought life at all. It takes a friend going through a similar circumstance, or a song on the radio, or a prayer request to give me pause and bring my first child back to my mind.

A struggle I had - and still wonder about - is how we know babies go to heaven. It's a nice assumption to make, but where does the Bible say that? It's not that I think babies - who've had no opportunity to grow in understanding enough to accept or deny the truth of Christ - go to purgatory, or hell, or some other sort of other realm. I believe they go to heaven, and that I will see my Orison someday. But do I believe that because I want to, or because I learned it from the Bible years ago and have forgotten where to find it?