{"id":4327,"date":"2011-11-13T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.17.21\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2011-11-27T23:28:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T07:28:31","slug":"daily-kaddish-lillian-isabel-october-18%e2%80%9321-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/?p=4327","title":{"rendered":"daily kaddish: for Lillian Isabel (October 18\u201321, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Cori Kesler wrote me a few days before I made this recording for her, and I&#8217;m really sorry that I got so far behind in posting these daily Kaddishim that I&#8217;m only now sharing it with her almost a month later.<\/p>\n<p>This is a story about friends, moms, daughters, sisters sharing life and death stories. Cori wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m in Columbia Falls (near Kalispel). Weeks ago I made plans to come help my friend out after her surgery and then this tragic death happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lily&#8217;s older sister who is about 12 wrote the following poem for her baby sister:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WE WILL ALWAYS HOLD YOU CLOSE<\/p>\n<p>Lillybel, Lillybel<br \/>\nMy oh so sweet baby<br \/>\nOur beautiful Lillybel<\/p>\n<p>Come to us in our darkest<br \/>\nhour.<br \/>\nWe showered you in love<br \/>\nFor 13 days I held you<br \/>\nclose.<br \/>\nOur sweet Lillybel<\/p>\n<p>The more we cry<br \/>\nThe more we love<br \/>\nIt was and is all<br \/>\nfor you.<\/p>\n<p>Lillybel, Lillybel<br \/>\nMy oh so sweet Lillybel<br \/>\nOur beautiful baby girl<\/p>\n<p>Even if you cried<br \/>\nat night<br \/>\nEven if you need us<br \/>\nnow<br \/>\nWe are here for you<br \/>\nAnd you are up high for<br \/>\nUs<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll pick a star up<br \/>\nin the sky<br \/>\nJust for you<br \/>\nAnd think of you all day.<\/p>\n<p>Lillybel, Lillybel<br \/>\nMy oh so sweet Lillybel<br \/>\nOur beautiful baby girl<\/p>\n<p>You knew no cruelty<br \/>\nYou only knew love<br \/>\nWe shielded you from<br \/>\nloss<br \/>\nJust to save ourselves<\/p>\n<p>Now we are hugging, kissing,<br \/>\nloving<br \/>\nwaiting\u2026 waiting for<br \/>\nyou to show yourself to<br \/>\nus again<\/p>\n<p>Lillybel, Lillybel<br \/>\nMy oh so sweet baby girl<br \/>\nOur Beautiful Lillybel<\/p>\n<p>Our one and only<br \/>\nBaby<br \/>\nLillybel<\/p>\n<p>In loving memory of Lillian Isabel Nelson<br \/>\nI dedicate this poem to you<\/p>\n<p>Your always loving Big Sister<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Cori Kesler wrote me a few days before I made this recording for her, and I&#8217;m really sorry that I got so far behind in posting these daily Kaddishim that I&#8217;m only now sharing it with her almost a month later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,216,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-essays","category-kaddish-in-two-part-harmony","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}