Blessed

Today is Tate’s actual due date. Today he is now 61 days old. How different his life, and our lives, have turned out to be from what we had planned. This week I can’t help but be thinking about how it would have been. I’d be 40 weeks pregnant, huge and uncomfortable. We’d be anxiously awaiting those first labor pains and a precious little baby boy.


Instead we have spent this week reveling in our miracle. Tate. Being born 9 weeks premature could have been life threatening. For Tate, it wasn’t. He could have been on oxygen, a ventilator, or c-pap. He wasn’t. He could have had an infection. He didn’t. There could have been complications from his birth. There weren’t. There could have been numerous other complications in the past 9 weeks. There weren’t. Instead we have a beautiful baby boy with ten fingers and toes.

God’s exact plan for all of this is still being played out. I have no idea why he chose to get our attention in this manner, but He’s got it. I don’t know the path He’s leading us on, but we’re following. I don’t know the plan He has for Tate and our family, but I know there is one and it will be a good one. “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord. ‘Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.’” I don’t know what the future holds for Tate. There could still be medical, physical or developmental complications we don’t know about yet. We know that’s a possibility. But we also know God has brought us this far and he isn’t going to desert us now.

We’ll continue to take life one day at a time reveling in our precious little boy and the reminder he is to us of God’s grace, power and love. Every time I hold him I realize how blessed I truly am. Blessed to have a healthy baby boy in my arms to love. Blessed to have his big brother running circles around me all day vying for my attention. Blessed to have a strong, godly husband who does everything in his power to support, love and care for our little family. Blessed by the family and friends who have supported and prayed for us the past 9 weeks.

…to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory…
                                                                                                               Ephesians 3:20-21