It was this day last year, at 10:05 a.m., that Kayleigh Blair McClendon shook off this broken world and made her way to the arms of Jesus and the perfection of Heaven. Her absence leaves a gaping hole in our family, but we fill it with memories and hold fast to the knowledge that we will see her again.

These verses are some of my favorites. When the waves of sadness and wash over me, I am reminded that even the largest waves recede back into the ocean. Indeed, grief is hard – but, God is good and His love never ends.

Until tomorrow,
‘Carrow💜

Lamentations 3:20-24 NLT

20 I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.
21 Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:
22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
23 Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance;
therefore, I will hope in him!”

8 comments on “Happy Anniversary, Baby Duck”

  1. Praying for you. May the waves rush back into the sea for you today- leaving the beautiful menories of Kayleigh.

  2. I had been praying for that miracle, you know the one that stuns even the medical community and Atheists. I sat in my Psychiatrist’s new office. I was the only adult to be seen which was so strange. I was looking through Facebook and I saw the post I had actually never thought it would not be the miracle healing I had made up God’s mind for him in my own mind and seeing he had taken her home almost​ stopped my heart. I absolutely needed to speak with my psychiatrist then I absolutely needed to speak with him not only​as my doctor but as a fellow believers and at that very moment years streaming down my face they told me I could no longer see my psychiatrist he had changed his mind at the last minute and though I had been his patient for over ten years he cast me aside. I went into his nurse’s office and she kept her back to me the whole time she did not see the devastation of years for this beautiful child lost to us had caused she asked me all the usual Questions and I lied to each of them knowing no more healing could go on in a tiny office with a woman with her back to me and never saw devastation on my face in my heart and throughout my life. The psychiatrist would have but he had cast me aside. A better more money making opportunity had come into this man’s life and he was no longer interested in his passion,it had become for him all about his new God mammon.i left defeated and was less than a mile from where my husband work I met him in his parking lot of his job and he came out and held me and prayed for Kayleigh’s new healing and for your whole family. And that day it was all about y’all and your healing. I’m not going to say I wasn’t mad about losing s great psychiatrist I had spent 10 years healing my mind with, but then on the hour trip home I listened to a Christian Radio’s songs. And I realized I had received a level of healing. I no longer needed antidepressants and anti psychotics. I needed God. I moved on and have a psychiatrist I see every six months who gives me medication to sleep and for Anxiety/Panic attack. But the Depression and Psychosis were no longer an issue. I have followed your story from. Shortly after her diagnosis till the day she went Home to God to be healed by His Authority. And I’m still here but y’all it’s not because of how I got better but because of Mother’s Baby Duck and all the mighty lessons I have gleaned from your walk with God and your faithfulness as a cohesive family that has always believed​ and if y’all’s hearts could turn the beauty of her life into even more to help others in their places​ of strengths and sorrows. I myself​ am proud to keep walking in Faith with you as we look toward the future and all God still has to give through faith and faithfulness.

  5. I remember reading your post one year ago today! I remember my heart breaking for you guys but be thankful that she was no longer suffering! Thanks for sharing your journey with us!

  6. Special prayers and blessings for your family today. May all of the beautiful memories of your special angel baby fill the holes of your broken hearts this day and always! You are a true inspiration and when I read your posts they help to remind me of how blessed I am in the midst of life’s storms❤️

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