Baby Lance

What a journey this time overseas has been! As a dreamer, I have made many plans for this time. I dream big and then God reshapes my thinking or perhaps just changes me midstream and takes me a whole different direction. This is a perfect example: Our hearts have changed slowly and we have seen the Lord awaken a desire for kids "one day". This meaning, "not right now, but sometime later we could try to have kids." or, "it may be fun to have kids when we get older". Last week in the midst of utter chaos in our lives, we find out that we are pregnant. It was crazy. I felt so tired and just weird and asked Levi what was wrong with me. He joked about me being pregnant which made me think. I realized I was late and then told him I needed to take a test. We bought one and on the lunch break of a day long meeting, I realized the test was positive and we were in trouble. We were in shock for many days...well, we are still in shock...but every night we meet with the Lord as we lay hands on this baby, quote scripture from Jeremiah, and beg the Lord to form this little one into a man/woman after His own heart. Oh my, how God is rocking our world! Are we ready for this? I promise you we are scared to death! Scared of our selfishness, of our abilities, of being alone in a world that is opposite of our own and raising a little one to follow Christ alone.

Please pray for us as God is forming this baby. Pray that God will keep it healthy and alive and that God will form it and prepare us in the process. We are not exactly the "parent type". More like the cool friends who love kids but give them back type. Pray that God will show us how to be partners as well as parents and how to do that well.

Here are some pictures of Baby Lance. He is six weeks and 4 days old. Due the end of December.

The middle right picture is them showing us the baby's heartbeat. It was 130 which they said was great. They said he was perfectly healthy. Right now he is 7 mm. They say that everything is forming great and there are no red flags. We got lots of blood work, urine tests and ultrasounds today. We really loved the hospital. The doctor is very great. She is an older lady, speaks perfect English, is so helpful and has worked with many of our friends. She really put us at ease in a world that is total chaos! Praise the Lord!