Dear God, thanks for blessing us with our new family addition, Kathryn Hannah. Not only was the process pretty smooth, but she's beautiful and healthy (despite the usual battle with jaundice) and we're glad to be settling in back home. Thanks for answering many prayers. Give us patience and strength to raise this child to love You her entire life and to do great things for you! Amen.
This is our 3rd child, and each time God shows us some particularly unique things about Himself and how He creates us that drive me to awe and praise. I've seen it before but happened to linger a bit this time thinking about the amazing stuff called vernix caseosa. It's the white, cheesy substance that covers a fetus and has many functions, among which are moisturizer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and wound-healer. Dear naturalists, at what point did this multifaceted protective coating come into being? Did it have all these properties at once or did those develop over time? Either way, just how did the all mothers universally & magically "will" this stuff into being?
Romans 1:19-20 gives me comfort, assurance, and reminder in the very creative God of Psalm 119:13-16:
"For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them."
Amen and amen!
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