Sweet Baby Duncan

Yesterday I asked you all to pray for a dear friend of mine.

I can't thank you enough for heeding the call.

And now that I have permission to give more detail, I will. Some of you may have already met her, but for those of you who haven't, I would like to introduce you to my friend Monica.

Monica and I met through blogging forever ago, and we instantly just...clicked. You know what I mean? We just really "got" each other. We have exchanged emails and cards, and I am very grateful for her friendship.

Sunday afternoon I got an email from her asking if I wouldn't mind giving her a call. We played a bit of phone tag, and finally connected on Monday night. When we first said hello, I took note of how her voice sounded familiar to me...which I found strange considering we had never actually spoken before. I smiled to myself as we exchanged pleasantries thinking about how the Lord had just linked our hearts together so much that of course her voice would sound familiar...we knew each other.

After a bit of chit chat I said "so what's up?"

And then, just barely above a whisper, she said "We lost the baby."




Monica was six months along with her second son. And over the weekend she learned that the child inside of her was no longer alive. She was induced on Tuesday morning, and delivered Duncan Thomas Gregory later that night.

Thank you for praying her through yesterday. As I said, God knew the details.

I had been praying all day myself. And in the birth of Duncan Thomas I witnessed one of the most miraculous exhibits of the Holy Spirit I have ever experienced.

I may not know why He allowed this to happen, but I have no doubt He is very real and He cares an immeasurable amount.

I will write more about that later, but tonight I don't want to make any of this to be about me.

Tonight I ask you to please go visit Monica, read her precious words about her son, and please continue to lift her and her family up in prayer.

In Him,