I don't often get emotional but....
My mum sent me a video yesterday.
The video played- there was my mum, a decade younger than me now, in her 20s, a proud new mum gently moving baby me around, dancing, smothering me in kisses and singing the song playing in the background from the stereo "It's such a perfect day".
Man I'm tearing up typing this again.
Several things got me about this.
1. My mum's heart condition, by God's grace she is recovering great but what a journey.
2. Thinking about the fact that our Triune Thrice Holy God saw me and looked over me even then (and since eternity past), preserving my life so I could get saved for His glory. He could have caused me to die in the womb (Acts 17:25).
3. My wife's own pregnancy journey- thinking we would have memories like this, the undescribable feeling of being told you'll be a dad- next stage a nervous looking sonographer trying from all angles in a scan to find a heartbeat, leaving the room for a few minutes for a discussion and then saying "There isn't a heartbeat, I'm so sorry".
Then the phone call telling your crying mum your wife has miscarried and she won't have a grandchild.
Repeat this twice in a row for my wife and I.
4. The longing for my mum's salvation, that she may be saved by the blood of Christ.
The video played- there was my mum, a decade younger than me now, in her 20s, a proud new mum gently moving baby me around, dancing, smothering me in kisses and singing the song playing in the background from the stereo "It's such a perfect day".
Man I'm tearing up typing this again.
Several things got me about this.
1. My mum's heart condition, by God's grace she is recovering great but what a journey.
2. Thinking about the fact that our Triune Thrice Holy God saw me and looked over me even then (and since eternity past), preserving my life so I could get saved for His glory. He could have caused me to die in the womb (Acts 17:25).
3. My wife's own pregnancy journey- thinking we would have memories like this, the undescribable feeling of being told you'll be a dad- next stage a nervous looking sonographer trying from all angles in a scan to find a heartbeat, leaving the room for a few minutes for a discussion and then saying "There isn't a heartbeat, I'm so sorry".
Then the phone call telling your crying mum your wife has miscarried and she won't have a grandchild.
Repeat this twice in a row for my wife and I.
4. The longing for my mum's salvation, that she may be saved by the blood of Christ.
