I am going to have a nephew!

Okay, so technically, we don’t know yet. As crazy as it is driving all of us, my brother and sister-in-law refuse to find out just to ease our curiosity. Rather selfish, don’t you think? But seriously, look at this face, is this not the face of the cutest little baby boy you’ve ever seen?

This child will hate me if it turns out to be a girl.

I have the benefit of currently working in the same office as my sister (in-law, technically, but really, she’s a sister!) and thus get the updates when she comes back from visiting her doctor. And today she came back with a little teddy bear that holds the recording of my nephew’s heartbeat (I’m not kidding, I am set on this being a boy!).

And it is simply the most beautiful sound there is.

As I listened to it, I couldn’t help but be in wonder that I serve the God that beats that little heart. The God that designed tiny little fingers and tiny little toes, and skin so soft there’s nothing else that compares to it. The God who created button noses and little giggles and squeals.

I serve the God who is so good He gave us babies.

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God-you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration-what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
Your thoughts-how rare, how beautiful!
God, I’ll never comprehend them!
I couldn’t even begin to count them-
any more than I could count the sand of the sea.

Psalm 139: 13-17 (The Message)

Emily