Eden

This week, Eden turned 5 years old. How I love this little girl. This week makes me remember Eden's birth story. She is an amazing child and I love her with a great deal of my heart. I almost lost my own beautiful baby girl when she had Eden. I still cannot think about it too much, or even talk about it, because it still makes me misty-eyed to re-tell the story. Bethany was so close to death that they let us come and go whenever we wanted while she was in intensive care -- it wasn't until they started enforcing the time restraints in intensive care that I realized that she was going to live through it after all.

I am not going to go into any details here, just suffice to say, God is good and he let me keep both of those girls. What I did get out of the experience was an awesome knowledge that God is with us whenever and whatever we do. Even when we don't think He is anywhere around. God was with me during that time -- he gave me a patience that I did not have to allow me to wait on Him to do His work. I had to totally rely on God to get me through the days and nights of not knowing what was going to happen to my child. I drove many a mile to take care of her, to be with her, to do whatever she needed for me to do, but only God could save her life -- I was powerless. I would have given my life for hers. I did learn a bit about how God felt to lay down his only son for us. It is an awesome thing He did. I could barely fathom losing my child, but God let his child be born for that purpose -- to die for us. Anyone who has children that they love knows how much you love your child -- what you would do to protect them. God let Jesus be born knowing that he was going to die a gruesome death. While I thank God for that, I do understand the sacrifice He made for us and am proud to have Jesus be the Lord of my life. Without him, I would never have made it through that ordeal. Glory be to God for my daughter and her daughter.

Happy Birthday Eden -- I couldn't love you more.