11/11

Because we are pregnant again--and past 12 weeks, I haven't thought much about the  miscarriage(except the added worrying that something might happen again, and how neat it will be to see that baby someday in heaven)--until last night.  Today, 11/11, was the due date.  My sister and I talked about how neat that date was!  Well, here we are.  I had so many questions of why God let us get pregnant for it to end in miscarriage--and especially when Lynne, PJ's sister was due about the same time.  I think we may have our answer.  Lynne's water broke last night, and may have Ellen Katherine on 11/11.  Now we will never know when, if we carried to term, that baby would have come--but that sure would have been crazy!  I clung to two verses during that time that I read over and over: Philipians 4:8-9 &13 and Psalm 62:6-8, and as I re-read these tonight, I see how when in despair we cling to our rock and salvation-for he gives us strength & boy does he ever for I would not have been able to go through that alone.  The Lord does work in mysterious ways.  We wouldn't be pregnant with this gift had we still been pregnant with the first--so I am thankful everyday for this pregnancy and all the wonderful moments it brings.  

I pray for Lynne and he labor tongiht , and can't wait for the news that little Ellen has entered the world and is in the loving arms of her parents!