Hope and Courage: Six Life Lessons from the Parents of a Child with Congenital Heart Disease

by Kat Hansen

Children don’t focus on the future, either immediate or distant, which means they aren’t burdened by what they could be missing or what hasn’t come.

Mourning is not an emotion reserved only for the death of a loved one. In the days that followed, we mourned many things. We mourned the loss of normal.