Dear Family and Friends,
Malachi is due to arrive any day now. We are heading to Pittsburgh tomorrow, October 31st for an ultrasound. (Malachi is still measuring small.) After the ultrasound they will decide if they are going to keep me for an induction. (They more than likely will.) Then depending on how everything goes, he will be born (I'm guessing) Thursday, November 1st.
I go back and forth on how I feel on any given day. I have days where my faith is strong, and am completely trusting the Lord, and then I have days where I cry and worry and doubt what God has instore. Thankfully I am so blessed with such a godly husband that reminds me of truth. One thing that amazes me is the fact that there will and have been so many people lifting Malachi up in prayer. I can't wait to tell him someday just how many people were praying for him.
I feel anxious about what the next couple of days will hold. Labor for one! Then waiting to see what the surgeons decide. Seeing him for the first time, and learning how to feed him. It is all so overwhelming, but I am glad that the Lord will be our strength and guide us through the next couple of weeks.
Thank you all so much for your continued encouragement and prayers!
We love you!
Philip, April,(who wrote the post), and Malachi
"But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in[3] view of the surpassing value of knowing[4] Christ Jesus my Lord, for[5] whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the[6] fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in[7] order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so[8] that I may lay hold of that for[9] which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:7-12
