Few things can be worse than going through a pregnancy, waiting for a new baby to enter into the family, and then leaving the hospital with empty hands. Women who deliver babies who are either stillborn or die shortly after birth, suffer in ways we can’t even imagine. The worst aspect of this loss is that quite often society, unintentionally, does not ever validate the life of that child and the parents are told, “You can always have another one.”

It doesn’t work that way. Each life is unique and precious and parents need to have others validate and affirm that life that was lost. This organization has taken on one of the toughest reaching-out projects that exists: Meeting the sorrow of those parents and creating something to validate the life of their child.

This is a perfect craft for people who paint (freehand painting or tole painting, as examples) and enjoy working with materials to create and design boxes. These are not ordinary boxes either – these are very special memory boxes.

The Memory Box Artist Program is a well put together charity. It is a 501(C)3 so if you can’t paint but would like to help, you can certainly donate to give them financial support, as they are entirely volunteer run. Their Web site provides everything you need – patterns, instructions, photographs of completed boxes… check in with this site and you will be good to go.

They need you and I hope you will consider this as your way of reaching out. More importantly, there are moms and dads who need you. And what could be more important than validating a precious baby’s life?

Memory Box Artist Program