If ever there's a moment in your life when you realize that God is in complete control of time... it's when you're pregnant.  With my first child I was four days early, my second was nine days late (which we induced because of my impatience and I vowed not to do that again unless I had to because there was a threat to the baby or me), my third was on the due date, my fourth was eight days early, and my fifth was three days early.  My baby (as of now) will be two on the 19th of this month, and it's funny to think about the complete possibility of me still being pregnant, when I think I really assumed I would be having this baby the beginning of May, long before my youngest's second birthday.

Once again, I'm reminded of God's timing and control.  To wake each morning and wonder if today will be the day our lives change forever once again... to go to bed each night and wonder if our sleep will be cut short to welcome a new life into our midst... and only God knows when the moment will be...
...only God knows when the contractions will start...
...only God knows how it will be...
...and only God knows when I will gaze upon my baby's eyes, holding for the first time, the precious one I've carried for so long... awaiting anxiously, but patiently, for the moment God choose to bring new life into a world that will continue to turn... too busy to notice that time has briefly stopped in the lives of those who have allowed God to rule over their moment of perfect adoration of a little one, and the awesome wonder of the One who created this moment before anyone ever knew...

Like an open book, You watched me grow from conception to birth;  all the stages of my life were spread out before You, the days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.  Psalm 139:16 (The Message)

I wonder when it will be...
In Him,
Amy