Proverbs 13:12
Prov. 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Sometimes we wonder at the hand of God. Yesterday morning we woke up with Aimee having strong contractions close together and various other signs that this was the time. Yet, after a few hours, they started to slow down. We consulted with our midwife and after prayer, decided to try and help things along. Aimee’s due date is the 27th as close as we can figure, but do to a faulty pregnancy test, it could be anytime in the last two weeks.
Thus the midwife and I were starting to get concerned that this baby was too slow in coming and thus would be huge, may be too large for Aimee to handle. Yet by late afternoon, the contractions had stopped completely. Her water had not broken, but that is nothing unusual. We spent some time again in prayer and decided to just stop all things that we were doing to help the contractions along and let nature (God) move things along.
Aimee had several more contractions thru the evening and then we went to bed and she had a wonderful night of sleep, one of the best in weeks, as her bones hardly ached at all. So this morning I am emptying out the pool and wondering why God chose to not have our baby born yesterday.
Late yesterday evening, we got the call that a friend of ours up here in MN, who was also expecting a baby the same time, had gone into the hospital for an emergency C-section. We prayed for them and then I realized that we could have been doing that. God may have foreseen a problem yesterday and knew that a few more days would take care of the problem and chose to make us wait.
Thus the words in Proverbs this morning. We are a little saddened to not have our little one in our arms yet and for the fact that Aimee will have to carry this added weight around for a few more days. Yet we rejoice in the Lord that He is in control and when this desire comes, it will be full of life!
Thank you for all your prayers!!!! I am sorry for the false alarm but we would still appreciate your prayers for the child and for Aimee over the next few days. May God’s will be done.
Sometimes we wonder at the hand of God. Yesterday morning we woke up with Aimee having strong contractions close together and various other signs that this was the time. Yet, after a few hours, they started to slow down. We consulted with our midwife and after prayer, decided to try and help things along. Aimee’s due date is the 27th as close as we can figure, but do to a faulty pregnancy test, it could be anytime in the last two weeks.
Thus the midwife and I were starting to get concerned that this baby was too slow in coming and thus would be huge, may be too large for Aimee to handle. Yet by late afternoon, the contractions had stopped completely. Her water had not broken, but that is nothing unusual. We spent some time again in prayer and decided to just stop all things that we were doing to help the contractions along and let nature (God) move things along.
Aimee had several more contractions thru the evening and then we went to bed and she had a wonderful night of sleep, one of the best in weeks, as her bones hardly ached at all. So this morning I am emptying out the pool and wondering why God chose to not have our baby born yesterday.
Late yesterday evening, we got the call that a friend of ours up here in MN, who was also expecting a baby the same time, had gone into the hospital for an emergency C-section. We prayed for them and then I realized that we could have been doing that. God may have foreseen a problem yesterday and knew that a few more days would take care of the problem and chose to make us wait.
Thus the words in Proverbs this morning. We are a little saddened to not have our little one in our arms yet and for the fact that Aimee will have to carry this added weight around for a few more days. Yet we rejoice in the Lord that He is in control and when this desire comes, it will be full of life!
Thank you for all your prayers!!!! I am sorry for the false alarm but we would still appreciate your prayers for the child and for Aimee over the next few days. May God’s will be done.
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