Good Friday and Easter Sunday are perhaps the most significant days of the church calendar, and yet, in a real sense, we live our lives on Saturday, the day in between. Philip Yancey

Thursday, February 2, 2012

A Beautiful New Thing

While on the beach trip God revealed another layer of His plan for our family, one that added a deadline for this chapter and a fresh hope for the next.

Isaiah 43:19
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
   Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
   and streams in the wasteland.

Meet Baby # 5 (if you count present noses), 6 (if you count Lydia) or 7 (if you count Amelia's twin)
I simplify by answering 5th pregnancy!
  

I am 9 1/2 weeks along.
Due Date: Sept 2, 2012
(2 weeks before the 12th anniversary of Lydia's birth, 2 yrs and 2 months after Lydia's death)

Yes, our collection of baby things have been making a mass exodus to Good Will for months (not that babies really need that much). I was pregnant and didn't know it when I weepily asked Jason to retire the crib. Yet I'm already seeing God's much more creative plan working to bring new life in my spirit and our family workings.

This song is my theme for this season. It has been still waters to my soul, as I have swung from: But God don't you see that I'm hardly mothering material still!
To: You are working here, will make something beautiful again out of us.

Click here if you want to listen as you read the lyrics of my heart.

Beautiful Things by Gungor

All this pain
I wonder if I’ll ever find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found
Could a garden come up from this ground at all

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

All around
Hope is springing up from this old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make me new, You are making me new
You make me new, You are making me new
You are making me new

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make me new, You are making me new
You make me new, You are making me new

12 comments:

  1. Wow! I could have told you! I saw you in church sometime during December and thought, "I think Allison is pregnant." So, I went on the blog and saw that you were retiring the crib. I thought, "well, I was wrong on that one!" Wow! Amazing! You've been glowing for weeks! Congratulations, Allison and Jason.--Rebecca Lanning

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  2. Oh praises and congratulations and joy!

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  3. Joy joy joy! So excited for you all!

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  4. Beautiful! Congratulations and prayers for you and your family!
    Samantha Cashen

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  5. Congratulations Allison and Jason! It is truly a new season in life!
    As John Asher would say "I so happy!"
    Love,
    Robyn

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  6. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy for little Tripp, you, Jason, and the whole wonderful family! I just love the ultrasound picture. So, so sweet. !!!!!
    Love and hugs from Asheville, Brooke

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  7. Oh I am so happy for all of you, Allison! Babies encourage true happiness, true laughter, real smiles. The Lord has found favor in you. Thank you for letting us know. What wonderful news this is!

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  8. Our God is an awesome God! Congratulations, Allison and Jason! Rejoicing with you guys!!!
    Love, Connie

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  9. God has decided to give you and Jason a "Masters" degree in parenting, and you a "Masters" degree in mothering - you surely can cook!!!

    And apparently it was time for a new or different crib.

    I love has this reads in the Message "Use all your skill to put me together; I wait to see your finished product." (Psalm 25:21)

    As He's putting the new little one together, He's also working on you (& us).

    Love you,
    Dad

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  10. What a GR-8! comment by your Dad. Very much LIKE & AGREE!

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  11. Oh Allison, I am so happy for you, and the family. It is such a joy to carry a King's Kid.
    God Bless you as you go on. I pray for a Great pregnancy in Jesus' Name.
    Love you,
    Shirley

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