For those of you who don't know Tricia, this is her holding her 8 week old daughter Gwyneth for the first time.... I can't imagine what she was feeling. She was willing to give her life for this little girl, and lived to be able to hold her. We are all praying she lives to see many birthdays to come.
But what is more amazing about this story is something I read on her father-in-law's blog. It's hard sometimes to imagine how much God loves us, but it's when we see things like this (the longing of a mother to hold her child, the sacrifice, the waiting, the tears of joy and sadness) that make it a little more tangible. He talked about how her waiting for the time to hold her daughter is a little how God waits for us who know him... as he stands at the gates for those who come home. We will not have to go look for Him. He will be waiting with open arms to greet us and hold us and say, "Welcome home my child."
In a Spiritual sense God is waiting to hold so many more of us who would come to Him right now on this earth... So many of us who know Him to lay our burdens at His feet; and so many more who don't know Him to find meaning to life, to heal their deep hurts, and to find rest from all the world has dumped on them. He is waiting with open arms. He wants to love on you and show off the greatest "you" that hides somewhere deep inside. Don't keep running away, or trying to do it yourself, or just sit there waiting for life to happen, find true love, find Life... find Jesus.
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