Truth and Grace

It was a year ago today that Sanne was a little egg that was fertilized in the hospital following our In Vitro surgery. Here is a posting from that procedure. Just a nice reminder that God does answer prayers.


May 20th 2006
It is a beautiful day in Chicago. Sunny, cottonball clouds and in the 70's. Nathan and I planted our vegetable garden. It's a modest little garden, just a few plants are trying this year: strawberries, red onions, white onions, brussel sprouts and pickle cucumbers for canning. I know that the analogy is cliche but today, as we bought these plants with so much hope, fertilized and planted them, I couldn't help but make the connection.

Our lives are filled with hope right now or at least the desire to find hope. And we sit here, like with our garden, and do everything we can to make things grow . . . part of it is our doing: fertilizing the garden, watering and pruning but we also know that God plays a role with the rain and the sun and the heat . . encouraging our garden to grow. Yesterday morning we went in for my surgery. I was both anxious and excited. I don't remember the procedure at all, just talking about American Idol, meeting the anethesiologist and then waking up to Dr. Davies telling me I was perfect and everything went beautifully. Yesterday was a hard day physically and it's amazing how much you have to rely on someone else when you are not even able to walk without pain. Lucky for me I have a wonderful husband who cared for me the whole time. Dr. Davies told me she would call us on Saturday to tell us how many eggs were mature and had fertilized.We got a phone call at the Farmer's Market today. . . we have 8 fertilized eggs. (We need two to grow into embryos to be implanted in me at our procedure on Wednesday). This was wonderful, wonderful news.

New hope. A few weeks ago I planted seeds from Linnea's shower. Little seedlings are popping up and every time I water them I think of Linnea's new daughter, Gwen and how she is growing . . how much hope there is for Gwen and how lucky she is to grow with two wonderful people as parents. Today we planted our own garden. And like our garden, we hope that something wonderful will grow. Something cared for before it was even conceived. Loved for and prayed for by so many people who love us. Please keep praying for us this week as we wait to see how many embryos grow.

And in the next coming weeks after the embryos are implanted. . . that we prepare our hearts for whatever news is to come and yet maintain the hope we have planted on a wonderful Spring day.