Before the Start

The night before last, I had gotten out of the shower and was laying down, talking to my husband and that’s when it happened.  My baby girl kicked and I saw it from the outside of my stomach. This is the first time that had happened and you can imagine how excited my husband and I were.  It was the most amazing moment since we saw her for the first time and heard her little heart galloping away at the ultrasound.

I know it’s really cliche to say, but every time I feel her move it’s like another little miracle that God has blessed me with.  My husband hasn’t been able to feel or see her movements yet, so it’s like a private secret that baby and I share, just the two of us.  This got me thinking.

The Bible has a lot to say about babies.  Psalm 139:13-16 speaks of how God builds and designs us from the start.  Even before I knew I had a baby growing inside of me, God was there, putting her body together and forming her perfectly how He wanted her to be.  He saw her before I even knew she existed. Before her movements were a little secret between she and I, they were a secret between her and God.

Like Psalm 139:16 says, in Jeremiah 1:5 God reveals that He knows us even before He starts to build and form us within the womb.  So as I sit and wonder what my little girl will look like and what her interests will be, God already knows. He already knows what she’ll grow up to be and who her children will be.  He has already set aside a calling for her life.

There are so many other passages, but these are the ones that come to mind as I watched (what I can only assume was) my baby’s foot pushing my belly up.  As I contemplated these passages, there was only one conclusion I could come to: God is already so much more in love with my baby that I ever could be and she’s not even born yet.  I was so humbled thinking about this and knowing that God has entrusted me, only me, with caring for and protecting this tiny life until we get to meet her face to face in October. By extension, my husband has also been charged with caring for and protecting her as he cares for and protects me.  Our job as parents does not begin when our baby makes her debut, but began the moment we saw that double line on the pregnancy tests.

I’m -- we’re -- just so amazed and blessed by the tiny human being that God is knitting together inside of me with such care and attention to detail.