Reality finally hit today. A wonderful reality. I was sitting on the couch with one sleeping girl slung over each shoulder, watching a TV special about a family with twins who were born at 24 weeks. As I saw the tiny bodies of the twins on TV, encased in their sterile isolettes and laced with tubing, it hit me: those could have been our girls. Those almost were our girls. The Lord spared our family from a trial beyond our imagination by keeping me pregnant long past the point that I went into labor. If I had delivered when my preterm labor began, it’s very possible that Jim and I would still have an empty house and would be visiting our girls in the hospital, if the Lord had seen fit to preserve both their lives. Of course, none of this is news to me. But something about seeing those little babies on TV fight for their lives while I had two warm, sticky faces nuzzled under my chin…
I praise God for His unbelievable mercy toward us. He provided us with the new life of salvation by giving Jim and I faith in the work of His beloved Son on the cross, and he delivered unto us the lives of our precious daughters. He spared not His only son, and He spared our only daughters. We don’t deserve either gift. May the Lord renew within me gratitude for His abundant grace.
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. You see, at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly…God demonstrates his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:1-2, 6,8).
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