I could write pages about the many ways God answered prayer throughout this pregnancy and delivery, but I’ll tell only three stories, all of which happened within minutes of each other. God woke up three important people at just the right time:
- Kelly. During our sons’ birthday party I had talked to Kelly about picking her up on our way to the hospital – whenever that eventually happened. That night she woke up, realizing that she’d left her cell phone downstairs. She went down to get it and only minutes later, we called. It was a good thing she came along — with as fast as everything went, Dan would have missed the whole birth if he’d had to do the checking in that Kelly did for us.
- Jean. Our good friend and colleague woke up inexplicably at 1 am, thought, “Christie could be having her baby” and prayed for us for the next hour. That was exactly the hour in which everything happened!
- Dr. Schmidt. Our doctor also woke up inexplicably in the middle of the night, feeling like he was missing out on something. Right then he got the call from the hospital and arrived sooner than he would have if he’d been sleeping. Although Anna came so fast that he missed the delivery, he did get there in time to stitch me up afterwards. He said that was a good thing, as the emergency room resident doctor who delivered Anna hadn’t had experience stitching tears.
We praise God for waking up these important people at just the right time!
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