It's Time To Share

I have wanted to share the story of my daughter's miracle birth for quite some time and for several reasons, but I simply wasn't going to until the timing was right. Meaning that there is one particular, albeit very important part to her story that she simply wasn't yet mature enough to understand, and I was willing to wait as long as it took for it to make sense to her naturally, without any sort of forced explanation.

This has been a sweet year for my daughter spiritually. The two years before that were full of situations that caused her to realize, as we all eventually do, that life contains some not so pretty parts. She was forced to understand through life's unkind circumstances that it is not all rosy and innocent, the way that God had always intended it to be before the Fall of Man.

But last May, she asked us about Salvation. We purposely approached the subject with a bit of apprehension. I have never wanted to frighten my children into a false confession of something they don't really understand. So we waited. We waited for Faith to come to us and explain why she needed Salvation and to ask for our guidance with her own sense of urgency. Last May that happened.

Again, we waited to allow her to be baptized. She said she didn't understand baptism and we felt that an empty procedure of following the motions when she didn't comprehend them anyway lacked the very spiritual significance it is meant to represent. But again, she came to us. For about the last three months, she has mentioned almost daily why she wanted to be baptized and so yesterday, she was. What a blessed moment. I relate so much to Mary, mother of Jesus, as to "pondering these things in my heart." To think, I never thought of myself once growing up as an eventual mother! Yet it is my undeserved status as "Mom" that has given me most of life's GREATEST blessings!

One being, of course, this maturing little girl that almost didn't come to me. Now, because of her God that she so wisely draws near to, she is already discovering the Truths that took me until full adulthood to even first consider. One of those being the absolute miracle she is in her very existence.....