The Miracle Has Happened!

After 3 1/2 years of much prayer, we have been blessed with a child. What else is there to say but, "Praise God!" I have to admit that it is taking a while to sink in for both Rob and me. Sometimes we just look at each other and say, "Wow--we're gonna have a baby!" I also have to admit that now that I've been given this gift from God, it's hard to give it back to Him. What I mean is that it is easy to feel very worried about this child inside of me--that something may happen to him/her. But the truth is that while God has blessed me with a child to care for, it is still His child and He is in control--not me. My absolute favorite role model in the Bible is Hannah. She learned this lesson in a very literal way. She was blessed with a child and actually gave him back to the Lord at a young age to train to be a priest. In a sense, all mothers must do what Hannah did. God blesses us with babies to raise up to glorify Him. That means giving up our control over our babies to God. We grow them, we nurture them, we raise them up--but for God, not for ourselves. I have to constantly remind myself of Hannah when I am tempted to worry about this baby. This is God's baby. He's got this baby in the palm of His hand, and He's in control.