Sometimes policemen are stunned and cannot comprehend what you are experiencing. And not only you. Well, then, if others share.
On the precipice of hell
On the evening of the 2. February 2019 was recovered in Berlin, a dead Baby. As it turned out later, it was died before birth. Walkers had found it in some bushes, there it was as naked as it had come on the world. The summoned police officers were horrified, shocked. Because when it comes to children, then a professional distance is hardly possible. For them, it was as if they looked directly into the abyss of hell. What happened, someone throw away a still-born Baby easy?
With all the Dignity
Berlin is a hard city, a fortress of solitude. And yet the fate of the nameless dead babies has touched the hearts of many. People – even police officers – came together because they did not accept such a cold reality. Instead of an anonymous procedure, official state funeral they gave the little girl on the 13th. February, the last passage. She was provided with a name, and then all Would be buried, which our culture is capable of.
How it came to this unusual event? After the coroner had released the body, called a funeral home, offered to bury the little girl for free. “If the parents are not able to take care of the mice, then we will do that.”
The cost for the cemetery, an anonymous donor, who had recently become the father of a daughter took over. A stonemason found himself, donated a wooden cross with the branded name “Dorothea”. “If nobody else in the money, I want none of this.” He was able to make it with a special layer in time for the funeral, so that all that the little girl is accompanied on her last journey, had their names in front of eyes.
“God caught in the act”
“Dorothea” is more than just a Name for the little girl. He comes from the ancient Greek, and a promise: “God’s gift”. As Martin Luther once said: “When You see a child, You meet God in the act.” The small Dorothea should be at least in death cared for. Your name in the death, is, to let God’s promise of comfort: “I have called You by Your name, You are mine.” (ISA. 43,1). Because the circumstances under which the little Baby was found not remember, radical also to the own mortality? And remember that comfort is necessary?
A trumpet player of the police orchestra played at the grave. He had selected a children’s song. Under the sounds of “do You Know how much the star” the undertaker and his wife, the small white coffin into the earth to glide. Subsequently all, the cemetery gardener, saying good-bye and left rose petals raining over the grave.
The Bible phrase, Dorothea specified, came from the book of the prophet Isaiah. He will comfort the city of Jerusalem in dire times, the asks in despair if God has forgotten them. But God responds: “Can forget a mother to her child, that she should not have compassion on the fruit of her womb? And even if they did, so I don’t want to forget Yours. Look, I have graven Thee upon the palms of my hands.“ (ISA.49. 14)
It was bright of Sunny day, the sky a clear Blue. As the mourners left the cemetery, they learned that the cemetery would take on the sponsorship for the tomb and maintain it.
When people get together independently of each other, to give a nameless dead Baby, with all the Dignity the last passage, then the warmth and closeness. And we have a glimpse of what it means, if God is drawing someone indelibly in his hands.