Tomorrow my little girl turns four. I'm distraught on the inside--my baby is turning four! Brian would have had 10 kids if he could! I thought I wanted four or five. We prayed and prayed about having a fourth. And the month before we were going to try, I was diagnosed with MS. His answer was clear. Many people can still have children with MS, but they did not think it wise for me with the number of lesions and a need to "get this under control first."
But when I stop to think about my little babies, I am overwhelmed with the Lord's abundant mercies. First, I have children. I look around at a world where so many women struggle to get pregnant. And then I consider that He gave me two at a time! Twins. He knew then that I wouldn't be able to have any more after Charlotte... . What incredible mercy.
How quickly I forget to say thank you when they are all screaming their heads off at each other, and I'm threatening them for the twentieth time that day about being kind to one another. But tonight I am reminded that "every good and perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17).
Praise the Lord for my favorite little people!
