Footprints on the Heart, Inc.

Remembering all bereaved dads today. Their hands may be empty but their hearts are so full of love. Remember to reach out in support if you have time today.

Although the photos aren’t shown here in the post, our memories of every father (and family) we have ever met are playing in our hearts and mind today. Not just the fathers of the babies whose lives were much too brief…but also of the fathers of those mamas and daddies who wish they could take away the pain and heartache that their child is enduring because of experiencing pregnancy loss/infant death.

So much this Sufficient Grace Ministries: Perinatal Hospice & Bereavement Support🪽

”Fathers are meant to be…

Strong

Courageous

Brave

Protectors

Providers

Builders

Fixers

What happens when a grieving father can’t fix what’s broken? When he can’t protect his family from an agonizing goodbye as the life of his child quietly slips away, leaving that man standing beside a tiny grave, holding his weeping wife up with his strong hands?

Grieving fathers, we see you. We see you trying to be strong.

Trying to hold everyone up. Pushing to go to work each day. Trying to find your way in a world with no fix for your family’s broken.

We see you.

Your part in your child’s life and your family’s life are so important and valid….and so is your grief.”
-K. Gerken

Sending love to all the Father’s out there...whether you hold your children in your arms or carry them in your hearts!

https://stillstandingmag.com/2016/06/17/dads-we-see-you/

Picture shared is one of our SGM families. Shared with parent-signed permission form.
(Photographer: Kelly Gerken)
www.sufficientgraceministries.org