Dear Son,
The day I heard you were coming, your mom gave me the
biggest surprise. I had just come back tired from preparing for the FES
National Conference the next day. Your mom had arrived that afternoon and was
resting in the room. She had come to help out as a graduate helper. I thought
she was already asleep that night, but when I entered the room and turned on
the light, there she was—sitting on the bed, smiling, and holding out a
pregnancy test result. She said, “I’m pregnant.”
For a moment, I didn’t know what to say (also, I honestly
had no clue how to read a pregnancy test—what do “T” and “C” mean? What are the
double red lines for? I never cared to know before). But after your mom
patiently explained it to me, the thought of you coming into this world was
just… wonderful. I hugged your mom tightly and we kissed. That night, all my
tiredness disappeared. I was the happiest man at the campsite (even though
nobody else knew yet). And your mom? Beautiful as ever!
One Bible passage that came to mind as we prayed and gave
thanks to our LORD for the precious gift He gave us was Psalm 139:14–16: “Thank
you [LORD] for making me [and that’s you too, my son] so wonderfully complex! Your
workmanship is marvellous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being
formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You
saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every
moment was laid out before a single day had passed.” To your mom and me, you
are—of course—wonderful and marvellous. But, my son, your Father in heaven
loved you even before you came into the world. His gentle hands formed you in
your mother’s womb, and His loving eyes watched over you from a single cell to
the complex, amazing being you are now. Son, I welcome you into this world—and
I speak the name of Jesus, the Son of God, over you.
Love, Dad.
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