This morning I opened up my Treasury of Daily Prayer to do devotions with the kids and saw under today's date that today is set aside to remember Martin Luther. "Wow!" I said to the kids, "I didn't know today was Martin Luther day!"
We read through the Psalm, Old Testament, and New Testament readings and then came to the church father writing (a beautiful writing from Luther) and then the explanation of today's saint. (As Lutherans we define saint as a believer Baptized into Christ either living or that has died in the faith.) It gave a brief but detailed account of Luther's life and fight to bring truth to God's people and then ended with why today is his day, because on Feb 18th he died and went home to the Lord.
I don't know why but that made me smile so big. My baby was born on the day Luther went home to the Lord. :)
I was dreading today. It's been bad enough around here. I've hardly been able to eat as I fast and pray to seek the Lord on how to continue through this endless parade of due dates, miscarriages, tests, and the month to month wondering. But today spring came for its first visit. It was the first day in 3 months that my kids stepped outside for more than 30 minutes. In fact, we were ALL outside from about 8:30 am until 1pm and then from about 2 until 4!! Oh it was so wonderful. And even though the snow is up to our knees, we had a blast in the warm air.
Happy Birthday Anastasia. We talked about you all day and went out to dinner. We even had an empty high chair at our table because your 2 yr old brother decided he was too big to sit in a high chair now...it dawned on me as it sat there empty that you would have been in it if you were here. We love you and miss you so much and your big brother even prayed for you this morning, that Jesus would guard and keep you in heaven while we wait to be reunited with you.
Come Soon Jesus, we miss our babies so much.
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