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redfishsc

redfishsc

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I know, I know, I know, most of us are guys here, but any guy that doesn't have a soft spot for lil' babies is just a bit too hardened, lol.


My wife and I have a baby on the way (I wish Amazon had a hospital, free delivery would be real nice!). We love to track the growth and development, and we found the most awesome image/graphic today that I wanted to share.

I only give the link here because the image (artistic, not a photograph) is "religious" in nature, but man is it awesome.

http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/jadoma/?action=view&current=Isaiah44-2.png
 
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Well, as far as the baby, we think sometime around Thanksgiving, likely earlier. We are only 9 weeks into it. We are giddy and impatient about the arrival of the baby, and every once in a while, just for laughs, I will lean over to her belly and go "HURRY UP!" Things are going well for us this time.

However, I posted on here in the "Other things we make" forum back in last November that "I'm gonna be a daddy!".

Unfortunately, just a couple days before Thanksgiving, we miscarried. This would have been our first child (we have been married for 7 years and are in our 30's). We both wept a lot, so we named him Samuel (which means "Asked of God" because we had been praying for a child). We know that we will see this child one day, I believe wholeheartedly that the unborn have a spirit (see Psalm 139 for why I believe that).

We wept and wrote him a letter, based on the advice I once heard from a Christian radio broadcast about this kind of tragedy. I then made a small plaque out of plywood veneered with maple burl (which my wife liked because it resembled cells dividing) and put a large Redheart cross in the middle of it, and sandwiched the letter we wrote in between the pieces of ply. That plaque, along with the permanently-embedded letter, now hangs on our wall. Now when I look at it, I think of the child I have who already is safe in the arms of God.


What is striking is that our first child was lost just before Thanksgiving. And yet our new child is due, well, just before Thanksgiving. I just can't live my life without thinking that God is good to me.

That image is just awesome. Both of my children, the one now in Heaven and the one in the womb, are both in the hands of God.


....but still.... HURRY UP!
 
Your picture is awesome and your sentiments even more! I didn't have my first till I was 35years old second at 41 third at 47 and now we are adopting a boy from Haiti. If I would have know how cool kids are, I would have started alot earlier.... But His ways are so much higher and better than ours, He is good all the time! Congrats:):)!
Even if I have to put them through college on social security!LOL!:D
 
Originally posted by 1TJTurner

Your picture is awesome and your sentiments even more! I didn't have my first till I was 35years old second at 41 third at 47 and now we are adopting a boy from Haiti. If I would have know how cool kids are, I would have started alot earlier.... But His ways are so much higher and better than ours, He is good all the time! Congrats:):)!
Even if I have to put them through college on social security!LOL!:D
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Lol, Jim, putting them through college on SS, that's funny.


That is awesome you are adopting from Haiti. I feel that we will adopt one day, also.

BTW, every time I see your name I think of a boss I used to have named Jim Turner, in Rock Hill,SC. He ran the meat market. In a lot of ways he taught me what it meant to WORK (and sweat!).
 
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