Peter Gabriel Hsu

We will be having a service and burial for our beloved son Peter Gabriel Hsu on Fri afternoon, Jan 9th 2009. Grace was pregnant for 21 weeks 4 days when Peter was delivered. He weighed exactly 1 pound, and was 11.5inch long. He lived about 2 hours after birth.

We named Peter after Psalm 18:1-2:
I love you, O LORD, my strength.
The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Peter, in Greek is petra, which means rock. The Lord is my rock. Then we were looking for a Chinese middle name that meant strength. However, we couldn't find anything. While we struggled through this, Grace witnessed an angel twice the night before the delivery. Our son is the baby angel in the heaven right now; he came to the world, went to the heaven to be next to God and he is the purest of all. When Oliver thought about the name Gabriel, we both felt the name is so right for him. Later we looked up the meaning of Gabriel, which means God is my strength, which is what we haven been looking for all these time.