Prayer Points: When You Find Out You're Expecting

(For those of you who haven't heard yet, my husband and I are expecting baby #3 on April 1!  We are absoultely thrilled but I felt all of those pregnancy jitters begin within moment of testing positive.  Here's the prayer I wrote the morning we found out.  -Desiré)

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For you formed my inward parts;

    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.^[a]

Wonderful are your works;

    my soul knows it very well.

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My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

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Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,

    the days that were formed for me,

    when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:13-16

Father,

You've made me a Mama to another baby.  You're knitting this child together in my womb and I am overjoyed at this gift of life.

I've only known for a half-hour and already the worry has set in.  I've had two normal, healthy pregnancies.  Will this be the time that things go all wrong?  I've been mod podging a lot and the fumes from my mopping solution made me feel so sick I had to step outside to catch my breath (3 times!)  Could I have hurt this fragile life growing inside of me?

Help me cling to You in this stage.  I am comforted as I'm reminded that this baby is fearfully and wonderfully made.  That this baby's frame is not hidden from you even though he/she is barely visible to the naked eye.  You see his/her unformed substance, are knitting him together and, even now, every single one of this child's days are written in your book.

It's amazing to think that the Savior of the world humbled Himself and became a tiny embryo.  The uncreated Creator became like his created Creation.  This Baby's days were numbered too.  He was born to die.  He was born to be the Savior of the world.  

Help me rejoice in HIS life and gift as I rejoice in this new gift of life.

Amen.