Oct 18 - Strength to my belief that all things happen for a reason. In the Catholic church today is the patron Saint Luke's feast day. At our first visit with our midwife back in..I don't know maybe april? Anyway she changed our due date by two days - no big deal babies never come on their due date anyway right?! I wasn't even usually using our due date when people asked, just telling them mid-late october. Now though those two days and the new due date of october 18 mean the world to me. About a month after our Luke was born we were looking for saint medallions to get Luke's initials imprinted on the back when we looked up the St. Luke and discovered that his feast day was noneother than our due date, October 18, and it just floored me when I found out. Instances such as this secure my faith in a God who knows what was, what is, and what is to come. When our midwife changed that due date we didn't know or even imagine all the events that would transpire between then and now.
I can also add that besides the perfect due date and the perfect name, everything else about Luke and his birth were perfect in so many ways. In scripture there are a few numbers that are considered perfect, without blemish, holy. Each individual digit of lukes numbers, his weight, length, date of birth and time of birth, were all perfect numbers. Even the time if changed to military time still is made up of the perfect numbers.
So I know, not that I like it but I know, that everything about Luke was perfect and now he is in a perfect body in a perfect place.
So if you don't believe in the perfection of God or the Lords perfect timing then I ask you to read this again and look back at your life, I am confident that you will all find instances that if they had been five minutes off would have had a very different outcome. My God is a holy and perfect God and though I don't like how life has gone recently I still have to proclaim that there is a reason beyond my understanding and that there is a God who is in control of this seemingly messy situation.
We have had a peaceful due date, my husband stayed home with me and we just had a good day. I was anxious up to today as described in my previous post but today was a good day, peaceful. God will guide us, with His sometimes quiet but yet strong voice giving us direction.
