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By Danielle King
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Fashioned in love by a human need.
My precious baby,
Before I was born you were there already. Nestling in the dark, silent place reserved for you deep inside me. There were thousands of others just like you, all waiting patiently for their destiny to unfold, all imbued with potential for life.
When the time was right you matured in keeping with me. My body changed and you knew that your journey was about to begin.
We were in tune with each other even then, although I was so unaware.
Each month, as the moon circled the earth in a ceaseless round, so did my body dance to the tune of its own rhythm, knowing instinctively how to behave.
The journey was hazardous for you at that point. You were the largest cell in my body yet so very tiny. You could so easily have slipped away from me forever. But no, you were the special one, the carefully chosen one whose life span on earth had been planned long ago.
I didn’t love you then because I didn’t know you. The Life Giver loved you dearly because He knew you, even before He formed you, and had decided into whose care He would entrust you.
And the miracle continued. Out of millions of microscopic hopefuls you were fused with the one cell that He willed to create the spark of life.
What was not - became what was! A human life had begun!
And yet my body kept its secret for a while.
How clever you were. Your newly formed cells knew their role and function long before you developed awareness, long before I suspected that I was host to you.
In the secrecy of the womb they busied themselves night and day, dividing and multiplying, specialising and grouping, following the unique blueprint determined by the Master Designer before the foundation of the world.
And there in the dark, silent place inside the newly formed you were planted the tiny seeds of the next generation, waiting for His perfect timing.
It’s breathtakingly awesome! Too amazing for me to grasp. Something far too lofty for my limited understanding!
I began to love you long before I gave birth to you. I loved you when I sang lullabies to you as you stretched and turned inside your universe, the only one you knew.
I loved you when I whispered my innermost thoughts, the secrets of my heart to you in the twilight hours as the world slept.
There was just the two of us, me and you. You knew my voice. I know that you knew me. Our bond had roots that ran deep.
You melted my heart and turned my head inside out. Your life changed mine totally. I lived for you. I was contented. It felt so right. Your mother was who I was meant to be.
I revoke my careless words and my stony, rigid thinking. Life doesn’t begin with the first heartbeat or intake of breath. I was wrong, so very wrong.
Your life was no accident. You were planned before time began and at God’s appointed moment he brought together the perfect union of male and female in order to create YOU!
God doesn’t make mistakes. You are unique and your life has a purpose.
Precious baby I will love you forever. You have given me so much and I want for nothing more than to care for and nurture you as I watch you grow.
The miracle that is you has opened my eyes and my heart to the miracle on the cross, and the length and breadth of the Father’s love for each one of us.
This knowledge is part of who I am. No longer being tossed around in my head but embedded deep within my soul.
My baby, you have been pushed out of the safety of your warm and gentle home into a frantic world of bright light and confusion. One day you will find your own voice in this mayhem.
I can’t give you my thoughts, my dreams, my aspirations for your life.
All I can give you is my love, totally and unconditionally forever. You have that already. You will always be a part of me.
Sleep tight little angel. I love you.
Mummy.
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I was a wee bit confused as to the "you" at first, but then it became really clear. I also had never thought about the potential for future generations already present within the newborn. Wow!