Heartbeat

There are few things in this world that move me as much as hearing a new baby's heartbeat.  In each of my pregnancies, I was so comforted hearing that little testimony of life calling out to me at the doctor's appointment.

  This past Wednesday I was blessed to hear my little niece/nephew loud and clear.  Sweet, strong, and steady it beats, reminding us that this little person will come into our lives before we know it.  In the midst of this I felt a twinge of sadness and longing....I feel like I'm pregnant with no promise of hearing a reassuring heartbeat, no doctor saying things are progressing nicely, no weigh-ins....just the promise of my daughter waiting for me much too far away. 

 I am thankful for my Lord who hears her heartbeat when I can't, who goes before me preparing the way on this journey to my daughter, Song.

 "Your hearts will burst with song, make music like the sound of flutes on parade, En route to the mountain of God, on the way to the Rock of Israel. God will sound out in grandiose thunder" Isaiah 30:29 The Message