I hesitate to compare myself with any of the saints, but I am getting the opportunity during this holiday season to relate to how Mary must have felt.  We are due with our 6th child, sometime around the 17th of the December and are still unsure where we will be.  We made plans to trek up to Northern California so we could have the baby with the wonderful midwife we have had with the last 4 children.  We would have the baby at my sister's house, surrounded by family.  However as we have been pushing to finish the mission house in Mexico and get our rental house re-rented so we can escape a lease, things have gone slower than we hoped.  Labor has been hard to find, and though my husband and his 70 year old father have worked tirelessly, housebuilding in Mexico is no rapid process. 

So I wait, and pray.  Will it be Kaiser down here, just my husband and I, or the midwife in Northern California.  Either option is fine, it would just be nice to know.

As I think of Mary, not knowing where she would deliver, not being able to set up a

nursery, or have the company of other women, I know that whatever God provides will be all that I need.