The old meeting the new

I met Emma Victoria Taylor tonight. I have known about her for 9 months and have long awaited her arrival. She belongs to my friends Jeff and Krissy and was reminded over the weekend of her impending arrival. As Monday morning rolled around in it's sometimes brutal fashion I spoke to my sweet Krissy on their way to the hospital and I encouraged her that she would be lifted up in prayer.

Throughout the day my mind kept remembering the words in Psalm 139--For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.-- As I arrived at the hospital to meet the child that has been prayed for since before her conception I had to stop and pray that the Lord would give me fullness of joy and that the painful part of the next few hours would be abated by his grace and mercy. (The painful part is where I sit back and wonder how or when God is going to "deliver the goods" to my door). Words can hardly express what a beautiful time I had, aside from her parents I was the first to hold this precious cargo, God in his most magnificent way reminded me that his timing is perfect. I had to smile as tears of jubilant joy streamed down my face as I looked at a "little Krissy". Why is that all babies look the same until you know and love the parents of one of these infants and you can see them in the child?

I left two hours later with a feeling of peace, comfort and contentment. Praise God! As I was leaving the family began to arrive and the feeling of a "family reunion" was strong. I visited with Krissy's cousin that I have not seen since the wedding and hugged and kissed the several friends that had arrived to meet Emma. It was the old meeting the new so to speak. I love it when our past that is the old self, the flesh and the lies we have believed is transformed by our newness in Christ. Please read II Corinthians 5. Driving home I listened to the words of Steven Curtiss Chapman "believe the unbelievable, receive the inconceivable and dream beyond our wildest imagination...Lord we come with great expectations".

I leave you with--God's timing is perfect!