The Great Composer

In 2013 my brother's wife Cathi was pregnant with twin girls.  She had some complications in her pregnancy which left her on bed rest in the hospital during the last several weeks before their birth.  It was a stressful time for them, as well as the rest of the family.  I prayed A LOT for the babies and Cathi.  

You may have heard of sympathy pains before.  Sometimes it's experienced by men when their wives are pregnant or giving birth.  Throughout Cathi's pregnancy I had a recurring dream that I was pregnant with twins....and they were boys.  At the time I assumed this was because I had been worrying so much about Cathi and my nieces.  This worry must have been weighing on my subconscious.  The dreams came regularly, and they were always the same.  I was always pregnant with twin boys.  In fact, I was convinced that my sweet little nieces were actually going to be boys!  

While Cathi spent weeks in the hospital, the rest of the family tried to guess her delivery date.  One night in particular, I had my same recurring dream, twin boys again, and they were born in February.  I recall telling Cathi about this dream, trying to relate it to her pregnancy, and Cathi telling me there was no way she was going to wait that long!  Her babies were due late December/early January.  Of course I must have dreamed about babies in February because my sweet Abby's birthday is in February.

On December 26, 2013 my nieces were born and sometime thereafter my recurring dream finally stopped.  But I awoke this morning thinking about that dream.  And at 6:30am I was tempted to text Cathi to see if she remembered, but I thought that was a bit too early for a "Hey you remember that crazy dream I used to have" kinda text.

At this point you are probably wondering what any of this has to do with anything.  Well, in 2013, our babies, the TWIN BOYS we are adopting were growing in their mother's womb.  And their birthday, is in FEBRUARY!  While I was dreaming about giving birth to twin boys, halfway across the world they were about to be born, in Poland.  God is such an amazing composer, writing every detail into our lives!  

Psalm 150

1 

Praise the Lord.[a]

Praise God in his sanctuary;

    praise him in his mighty heavens.

2 

Praise him for his acts of power;

    praise him for his surpassing greatness.

3 

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,

    praise him with the harp and lyre,

4 

praise him with timbrel and dancing,

    praise him with the strings and pipe,

5 

praise him with the clash of cymbals,

    praise him with resounding cymbals.

6 

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.