Today is Tuesday, December 9th, 2003; Karen's Korner #192

Who doesn't know that our daughter, Jamie and her husband Tim, are having a baby in the upcoming few weeks?

 

This is something I wrote back in June when we first learned she was pregnant. Obviously the baby isn't the "size of an apple seed" any more. Ultrasound pictures show a baby boy...getting bigger everyday:

 

Protecting Valuable Things

June 10, 2003

 

Last week, our daughter, Jamie and her husband, Tim, came home to tell us the good news. They are going to have a baby! So excited were they when they learned the news that day, they had driven 90 miles to our farm home to share with us doctors' reports.

 

Jamie went on to tell us that the several weeks’ old fetus was "now the size of an apple seed". Pretty small! Jamie went on, "I know this sounds funny, but I think I can already tell it a little bit in how my jeans are fitting me!"

 

Hard to tell for sure, but there is more than a baby the size of an apple seed growing inside of Jamie’s body. There is a sack filling up with some fluid to allow that new being to be protected for the next few months’ ride. Fragile little babies need to have an environment that allows for lots bangs and bumps without causing them any harm or injury!

 

Sort of like us who aren’t in a mother’s womb any longer! We still need to be protected from the bangs and blows of disappointment, broken relationships, illnesses, losses of any kind. God knew, and knows, that, too! He allows us to be adopted as little children into His family. He surrounds us with His Love, His Arms, His Strength. He knows how fragile we are as His Children and how unable we are to survive in our day-to-day world. He longs for us to ask to be adopted by Him; to receive His Love and nurturing care.

 

Just like Tim and Jamie’s baby who may get jostled by bumps and blows in the upcoming few months, we may get banged and bruised by life’s circumstances. But they don’t have to turn in to fractures and wounds. Life’s hazards can be deflected by the protective sack of God’s loving arms. That sack contains God’s love, which oozes over each of us. He knows we can’t handle much of what life might toss at us….so He offers His God-kind of protection! And that protection lasts into eternity!


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