A Beautiful Grace from God 12/30/2010

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I remember many moments holding my weeping wife and crying out in my heart to God in the midst of certain loss. “Lord,” I prayed over and over, “you can do what you will, but I’m going to pray right now for an “Beautiful Grace”, a sign of your beautiful grace in our life. At the time we did not know the sex of our child and as the words were coming out of my mouth the thought crossed my mind that maybe it was just too much to pray for a little girl when I should have been focused on just having a healthy child. After several weeks of great worry and distress, DEILmom's pregnancy progressed and our worries of losing our child subsided.

I’ll never forget the moment I first saw our first child, gave her her first bath as she screamed louder than I thought possible (certainly her lungs were healthy), and handed her to her mother. Sitting there holding our little girl, having already called the grandparents on the other side of the globe, I was suddenly overwhelmed to the point where my mind drifted to another place for several moments. I suddenly remembered those prayers prayed in desperation during those early weeks of pregnancy. I remembered my prayer for a little girl— “Beautiful Grace.” I realized that God had answered my prayer even in the midst of serious worry and doubt.

In this moment of truth I knew nowhere else to go…but to my Father. Like Paul, I wanted nothing more than for my wife and child to be safe and healthy. I wanted nothing more than for this little girl to become a part of our family.

The overflow…

May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace as you trust in him,
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Quotes to Live By--Don't Brag about tomorrow... 12/10/2010

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Don't brag about tomorrow …since you don’t know what the day will bring.  Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth–a stranger, not your own lips.  [Proverbs 27:1-2]

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