Lillies

Keri has now been in the hospital for 1 week, prayerfully on her way to 7 weeks, and life looks radically different. I have been trying to wrap my head around the idea of my wife being in the hospital for weeks on end. When our kids came home I was forced to spend my first night away from Keri and spent the evening staring at my cell phone with the ringer volume on its loudest setting. As parents we try to give our kids as much consistency as possible in order to give them a base for when life is inconsistent. God seems to do His best work when life is inconsistent. Maybe that is how He likes it. People have been asking me what treatments are available for us to try in this situation. I have to respond that the only thing to do right now is pray and wait to see what is going to happen. I have been preaching my whole life that we need to rest in God's plan and be content with what turns our lives take. Now that I am living that more than ever I realize that my faith has to grow. It doesn't have a choice. Which kind of makes getting closer to God a little easier. When friends around us go through trials we usually hear of how the process brought them closer to God. I think this is because when thrown into an extremely intimate moment we find that God is enough, is our rock, our deliverer and our relationship grows into something more. A friend brought a bouquet in a few days ago that had a wonderful assortment of flowers, but the most brilliant were the bright orange Lillies that came with it. When we put it into the vase one of the Lily buds fell off. Keri's mom cut off the bottom of a paper cup and put a little water in it with the bud resting in the water. Today the Lily bud is in full bloom and a brilliant orange. I was thinking about this in regard to our situation. It struck me that God likes to take what is broken and turn it into something that is full of life and beauty. Please continue to pray that God would take this broken pregnancy and bring Lillian into the world full of hope and beauty. Keri is doing well, we have received another day with Lillian and that alone is a blessing. Thank you for your prayers, keep them coming they are working. Blessings.