I don't have time to write a full update right now, but I wanted to say that we're home and all is well with both baby and mom and dad. I'll try to get a good update early next week. I'm taking my sister away for a few days as a 21st Birthday gift so I'll be out of town and baby is having a sleep over at Grandma T's house!
One of our cousins sent us this email, and with permission I want to share it with everyone. It so describes everything we've been feeling. Amazing how God gives us a glimps of others hearts, so pure and gentle...
"Just a quick note of thank you for allowing me the opportunity to spend those hours with your son. Honestly, I was nervous about the whole situation... you both know me, I am a perfectionist that worries about the fine details... I was worried about what I could do for him... somehow God turned the whole situation around. I did virtually nothing for him (perhaps popped his soother in a time or two :))... But rather, it ended up that he did SO much for me. I sat there watching him and was so awed by the perfection of God's creation that it brought tears to my eyes. How can one being be so precious? I wonder how it is possible that one little being can so completely steal ones affections through no 'work' of their own. What is our criteria for loving someone? If they can do something for us? If their personality is winning? If they view things the same way we do... Little Jacob has done none of this... he has not sought to win our affections... love spills from our hearts through no real doing of his. Something is coming to me... that is exactly how God sees us through the lens of His son... he doesn't see what we do for Him, he doesn't see what he can get from us, he doesn't see any of that... he sees the perfection of His own creation. He loves us because we are His creation. That is all. It is in our very inability to do anything for ourselves that He loves us. Hmm... interesting. There is something so absolutely precious about that son of yours... Like I said to you earlier Kev... it is beyond words. Even as I was praying for him last night, no words could express what I felt... thankfully we have been promised that through the Spirit, God understands the 'groanings' of our heart. "
Such sweet words, from a sweet person.
We love you.
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