(This is a single cell embryo, not ours, but we will be getting pictures of the ones they implant today.)Friends, I have been up since 5:00 and didn't get to sleep until around 1:00, the Olympic swimming didn't help much on calming me down.....I get so nervous watching all of the events. I also think that I have a lot on my mind. Our lives could (and hopefully) will change because of today. We have prayed for this for over three years, and to be so close is so, so exciting. We sat in bed last night and read through Psalm 139 together:
Psalm 139 (New International Version)
1-6 God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight. You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful—I can't take it all in!
7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, there! If I go underground, you're there! If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon, You'd find me in a minute— you're already there waiting! Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!" It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you;night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
13-16 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
17-22 Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them! I couldn't even begin to count them—any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers—out of here!—all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations. see how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance; I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies!
23-24 Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong—then guide me on the road to eternal life.
God's word is truth and I believe every bit of that passage. He already knows, Lord please make my hearts desire the very same as your desires. Please take away these anxious, overwhelming thoughts, let my strength be in you and you alone. You love us (and those sweet little embryos)more than we can ever imagine, and how intimately does he know us? He knows every hair on our heads and out of ALL creation He was pleased with all of us. Lord give us a peace that passes all understanding, and continue to go before us, push us, carry us, and protect us. We trust you!
If you don't think that God has a sense of humor....check out what was on Yahoo's homepage when I opened it up this morning. Hilarious!
1 comment:
You're right... God definitely had a sense of humor! :) Em, that passage of Scripture is perfect! God's Word is ALIVE AND ACTIVE--I love that it never grows old! Praise God for such a successful IVF process so far! We are praying for you all and your sweet little babies! Love you!
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