Thanks to Each of You

Dear readers, please allow me to express the gratitude that Devin and I share for your many congratulations over the past days.  It is a treat to check the blog throughout the day and see a new comment, particularly comments from those of you whom we have never met.  Devin and I have pretty much felt, well, famous the past few days.

I’d like to respond directly to a few comments:

Jenny, I definitely agree about God’s funny ways.  When we lost dear John Thomas and then received a subsequent diagnosis of “fertility issues”, I pictured the years stretching before me, long and bleak and barren.  How many times I had quoted to myself Jeremiah 29:11 as a single woman, longing for my spouse and the fulfillment of my feminine vocation.  And, how I clung to those words again as I forced myself to believe that Our Lord did indeed have good plans for me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me.  And, now, suddenly, I am to be the mother of three children under the age of two, and I wonder if perhaps Our Lord has overestimated my capacity to receive good gifts.  Are you sure, God?  I mean, my cup was already overflowing with the twins, and now?  Is my wineskin going to burst?  But, I suppose Jesus will simply have to give me a new wineskin for a heart, a wineskin that joyfully embraces each of  these precious gifts.

Frances, I definitely agree about distraction helping fertility.  I am a type A person and have long lived a life too full and too busy and with too much stress.  Becoming the mother of twins totally changed that.  Now, at times, my life feels too empty and too slow.  I cheer myself up sometimes now by playing Spanish meringue music and remembering my single days of traveling abroad and thinking how much I would again like to enjoy a Fanta in some Latin American plaza. But, Our Lord knew that He needed to slow me to down to receive this precious new life because my previous breakneck speed was not one conducive to being a mommy.

Trish, you are indeed a new auntie.

To each of you, know that we appreciate your joy and know that it helps to remind me that something wonderful is happening in silence when all I feel is sick and very tired.  Blessings in Christ.