God's Faithfulness

The past few days have been a time of reflection for me. A year ago I had an ultrasound that showed an empty amniotic sac. One week later I was in the hospital undergoing an emergency D & C (exactly one week before Christmas). Yesterday I had an ultrasound that showed a healthy 7 1/2 lb. baby boy. What a difference a year can make. I woke up this morning, opened the shades on the windows in my bedroom and saw heavy snow coming down. Immediately one of my favorite passages from the Bible came to mind:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.” Isaiah 55:8-13

Praise be to God.