It is the first few days of February and in the last 24 hours, Denver has gotten more snow then we have all winter. I think our total is getting close to 20 + inches. Enough to shut down the city and granting the wish of students, college students and adults alike......SNOW DAY! It is amazing how quiet the city gets when it snows. It forces everyone to take a deep breath and slow down for a bit. Can't say that I mind really.
What a week it has been. My sister gave birth to her first baby on Monday, about 4 weeks early. It was quite the surprise to everyone, including the new Mom and Dad. Baby and mom are perfectly healthy. If this boy's dramatic entrance into the world is any indication of the little boy he is going to grow up into, I love this kid already!
I can't really explain how amazing the experience was. I witnessed my sister become a mother, and watched her fall in love with her son. I saw my brother in-law gazing at his new son anxiously, touching his little head ever so gently as if to not hurt him. I watched as they became a family. I witnessed a miracle, after 8 months, a child entered the world with 10 fingers and 10 toes. Perfect little hands and feet with finger nails and toe nails. Fine little eyelashes. Everything that this little boy does is adorable. When he has hiccups.....it is so adorable, it is crazy. God is good. Watching this entire thing brings a whole new meaning to Psalms 139 (The Message), especially the below passage:
13-16 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.
It is amazing really. That the same God who created the universe in seven days shaped each of us. He knew exactly who we were, who we are and who we become. The same God that loves us enough to let us struggle, watch us grow, pick us up after we hit rock bottom. We are all truly "sculpted from nothing into something". I am thankful for my God. I am grateful for a brand new nephew who is absolute beautiful. I am madly in love with this little man. I am thrilled for my sister and her husband as they start this new journey in their life, as they start their family. And someday, they can report back to me, and help me when I embark on that same journey some day.
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