David & Becky

If you're a skeptic of a real miracle, too bad 'cause here's a good one. It's a long story but hang on for it! This is my sister and brother-in-law. Becky is Greg's sister and I've known her for 12 years now. She's become a dear friend of mine. David came into the picture almost 10 years ago and that's when their family journey started. From the very beginning of their marriage they knew that they only had a slim chance of having children. Becky had had years of extensive problems and so many surgeries that by the time I met her, she knew the procedures better than me with a nursing degree. And so, from day one of their marriage, they were open (and desperately hoping) for God to bless them with a family.

Their early hopes ran into discouragement after several years and they decided to seek fertility help. That's when the news for them got worse. Finding a problem with David now too, the doctor told them their only chance of ever conceiving was through in-vitro and, even then, the chances of it attaching were not good thanks to all the scar tissue (the word 'hysterectomy' had already been thrown out there once or twice already). Praying for God to use this to bless them with a child or two, they gave it a shot -- and failed. Nothing survived, not even the 'saved' ones for a future attempt.

Last year about this time, they gathered back their broken hearts and resources and decided to try again. Becky had to have one more surgery before and the doctor told her this was the last time he could do it. If the in-vitro failed this time she would soon-after need that hysterectomy. Oh, how we prayed! Many of you remember the urgency. We just knew it would work!

It didn't.

It was a double loss for them as they began planning the permanent removal of her womb. You can imagine the questions asked of the Lord over the sense of this. I remember asking the same questions over far less than what they had struggled with. But they never lost their faith in the LORD. It wasn't necessarily that they had the faith that He would give them a child but that He could, and didn't, and He still loved on them so tenderly and held them through the darkness so carefully. They decided to wait a few months on that procedure.

I'm going to Tulsa tomorrow to wait outside the doors of a hospital room. Becky's having major surgery Friday to have something taken out but it isn't her uterus. It's a healthy, full-term baby girl.

How? God did it. He did it! He is so awesome and so worthy to be praised! He gives Hope when there is no hope, life where there should be none. He IS miraculous! I so look forward to sharing my pictures when I return....!