My son's birthday is just around the corner. Seeing as in a different post I wrote a little about my miscarriages and my pregnancy with my little girl I wanted to share a bit of my son's story.
We got married in 2003 and we had our lives all planned out. We were gonna go on a short term missions trip to Africa and after that was finished we were going to head to Korea to teach English. The plan was to make money, come back to Canada and then start a family. Well things didn't go as planned. We had applied to teach English after our 10 mths on the program and spending 8 of those in Africa. However, because the Bible School where we met became accredited and changed it's name in-between when I graduated, and when my husband did, our degrees looks similar and yet different. They were having issues with forged degrees and so they just assumed ours were as well. So in the end that plan fell through. My husband used to work at the local Credit Union so he went to see the manager to see if there was a job available. The manager laughed and said he has already ordered a suit in my husband's size because God has told him my husband would be back working there.
So we decided to put down roots in our small town for a bit. I started to work in the office at a local factory. However, what I really wanted was to be a mom. I didn't enjoy going to work before my husband and getting home after he did. I did not enjoy my job and all I wanted was to be pregnant. But that didn't happen right away. Months of disappointment and negative pregnancy tests went by.
One day we were reading our Bible and working through the devotional OUR DAILY BREAD together. My husband read the reading and verse from the "wrong" day without knowing it. The verse for that day was 2 Kings 4:16: New International Version (NIV)
16 “About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.”
When we realized we read the wrong reading, we looked at each other and wondered if this wasn't the Lord speaking to us.
Eventually I quit my job and started at a new factory in the office. I enjoyed this work environment much better. I remember seeing my Dr. and starting basic fertility testing. I had a painful HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAM the first month I started the new job. 2 months later I woke up realizing that if that verse from a few months before was true I should do a pregnancy test because I would be pregnant. Sure enough we finally had a +pregnancy test. We were overjoyed. We kept it a secret for a bit. I remember a dear teacher friend of mine, with the gift of prophecy, had been praying for us for the months we had been trying and praying for a baby. I found out I was expecting around the end of August and at the beginning of September she sent me an email asking if I was pregnant because she felt the Lord had told her I was pregnant but she hadn't heard from me yet. :0)
All through my pregnancy the Dr. thought I was gonna have a girl but I knew in my heart that it was a boy. My water broke after 5 in the am on April 15th but after 19.5 hrs of labour my son's heart beat was going crazy. I had a wicked cold and I so tired. After midnight they decided to perform a c-section. I was pretty out of it from the meds but I do remember when he came out saying, "I knew it all along, scripture was right! It's a boy."
I can't believe that little boy will soon be 11. He's grown up so much. We love our son and are proud of him. I appreciate how KIND he is to others and how he loves to LEARN. He loves facts, reading, knowledge and LEGO. He likes to joke around too. He is our first little miracle and we are so thankful for him. He loves to dress up in dress shirts and ties or suit jackets and he has a little business mind. We look forward to seeing how the Lord will use our son in the future.
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