This is a ceremony that we recently attended to celebrate the life of a friend's baby. Our friend is bowing down in the middle of the photo while an "Aunt" holds the baby for a Hindu priest to dip coconut frawns in "Holy Water" and sprinkle it on the baby in a gesture of blessing. We have had the opportunity to celebrate with this family as they welcomed their second child a few months ago. We have also prayed fervently that they would turn from their gods to worship the God who saves. This weekend the world stopped turning for this precious family as their 4 month old son took his last breath. We have no answer as to why he stopped breathing, but by the time they got him to the hospital, he was gone. We grieved with them as that Mommy washed her newborn baby for the last time and laid him in the ground. The father is working abroad and cannot be here to grieve the death of his only son. Our heart breaks for them as they grasp for some hope to cling to this week. We know the God who gives hope to the hopeless and who is the peace that passes all understanding. Pray that we will be able to communicate the nature of God with the fragments of language that we have learned and pray that God would reach beyond our limited vocabulary to speak the things our words cannot. Pray that this family would see a vision of the ONE who holds their son now and know that He is the one true God.