Her due date is almost here...February 26th...but more and more each day the little one is showing signs of being happy and content, but toeing the line of preparing to make its big entrance into the world.
My sister is AMAZING! She is a Labor and Delivery nurse. She knows how to have babies, she helps people do it and get through it every day. I have gotten the privilege of standing by and watching her do it twice now and she is just so strong and so amazing! I am so excited for her to be so close to meeting her dear little one...
There is just one small thing that is tainting this time of expectation for me...I want to be there SO badly! It is selfish...pure selfishness :) But let's just be real here folks. The messages we are exchanging and hearing of all the events that are happening leading to the big day...it is killing me!
So, hence the blog post devoted just to her! I want to REJOICE with her and be the best support I can to her during the days and weeks to come until the big day and I need your prayer support! That I get over my self enough to be the same support that I could be to her in the room through prayer and emails and face time and messages and calls!
I am SO grateful for my sisters! I couldn't have asked for a more precious relationship in this life that the ones I share with them (all of them...sister in laws too ;) They bless me and encourage me and support me...they are my comfort when I am crushed and my listener when I just need to unload, they will just sit with me and be and they are some of the best ppl to laugh and be crazy with! I know that all of this is GREATLY in part to their love for Jesus and the dwelling place that they have created their hearts to be! They are one of the tangible ways that God shows his physical and present love to me!
So, folks...join me in praying for Sarah Ashleigh...a woman of valor. A sister who is preparing to give birth and endure those labor pains to give birth to something so precious and so beautiful...
Pray briefly for me as I mentioned before...but COVER her in these coming weeks. Pray for sleep and comfort and energy...pray for patience with her children and joy in the times that she has with her family as a family of 4...prepare their hearts to welcome a new family member into their lives and their home...pray for the delivery-that all may go without complication and go quickly...pray for control and focus throughout the delivery, that Sarah may be able to focus on each contraction and that her body would do what it was created to do...Pray for my sister, friends...
Sarah and I after Leah Grace was born
SO proud of her!
Together again after Caden Jeffery was born
Thank you so much for your prayers! I know that God's ways and timing and plans are so much higher than mine...so again I find myself saying, "Bondye Konnen"...God knows...
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