New Life
"I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born." (Isaiah 66:9)
The lungs take their first breath, accompanied by a victorious cry.
The newborn chest moves up and down with the beat of a young heart.
The hands are the smallest things you have ever seen. The delicate fingers curl tightly around your finger when you place it in their warm palm.
The feet are so little, with tiny creases that create the most perfect footprint.
Wrapped up in a blanket, the little bundle feels light and delicate, yet as weighty as the world's most precious treasure.
The passage into the new world is a traumatic one, passing from darkness into light...
from warmth into wind,
from water into air,
from tight enclosure into wide open space,
from comfort into vulnerability,
from seclusion into embrace.
This baby is truly a miracle. He is a testimony to the handiwork of the Creator God.
And this baby is like me; he is like you...even at this very moment.
We may not know it, but we may be undergoing a transition much like a new birth. God promised in Isaiah 66:9 that he would never cause pain without allowing something new to be born. God is taking our pain and bringing forth birth.
He is bringing us...
out of darkness and into light,
out of tight enclosure and into wide open space,
out of comfort and into vulnerability,
out of the womb and into the world,
out of seclusion and into His warm embrace.
The journey is a traumatic one, but a victorious one as well. The pain will all be worth it in the end when you hear the first cry of new lungs. God is giving you new life, a fresh beginning. He is making you new.
The lungs take their first breath, accompanied by a victorious cry.
The newborn chest moves up and down with the beat of a young heart.
The hands are the smallest things you have ever seen. The delicate fingers curl tightly around your finger when you place it in their warm palm.
The feet are so little, with tiny creases that create the most perfect footprint.
Wrapped up in a blanket, the little bundle feels light and delicate, yet as weighty as the world's most precious treasure.
The passage into the new world is a traumatic one, passing from darkness into light...
from warmth into wind,
from water into air,
from tight enclosure into wide open space,
from comfort into vulnerability,
from seclusion into embrace.
This baby is truly a miracle. He is a testimony to the handiwork of the Creator God.
And this baby is like me; he is like you...even at this very moment.
We may not know it, but we may be undergoing a transition much like a new birth. God promised in Isaiah 66:9 that he would never cause pain without allowing something new to be born. God is taking our pain and bringing forth birth.
He is bringing us...
out of darkness and into light,
out of tight enclosure and into wide open space,
out of comfort and into vulnerability,
out of the womb and into the world,
out of seclusion and into His warm embrace.
The journey is a traumatic one, but a victorious one as well. The pain will all be worth it in the end when you hear the first cry of new lungs. God is giving you new life, a fresh beginning. He is making you new.
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