{"id":724,"date":"2011-01-07T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2011\/01\/rejoice-with-me-now-with-a-picture.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:50:16","slug":"rejoice-with-me-now-with-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2011\/01\/rejoice-with-me-now-with-a-picture.html","title":{"rendered":"Rejoice with Me!  *(Now with a picture!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For the 9 1\/2 years I\u2019ve been privileged to be friends with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/05\/that-darn-white-minivan.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"> Woman withe White Minivan<\/a>, she has struggled and fought against her infertility.\u00a0 Two years ago, she finally seemed to make peace with it.\u00a0 Then God surprised us all when she discovered that she was miraculously pregnant last year.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, he arrived!\u00a0 My little godson!\u00a0 I have welled up with tears of gratitude all day.\u00a0 He is here!\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a picture yet, but if he looks like either of his parents then he\u2019s a beauty.<\/p>\n<p>She thanked me last week for helping her to carry this cross all these years. ( I guess that makes me her own little Simon of Cyrene.)\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019ve been there for all of it, even the ugly parts.\u201d She told me.\u00a0 \u201cAs much as you\u2019ve prayed for him, ached with me, and rejoiced?\u00a0 He\u2019s your baby,too.\u201d\u00a0 Oh my dear friend\u2026.he\u2019s yours and the Air Force Guy\u2019s little miracle.\u00a0 I\u2019m honored just to get to share in the joy.<\/p>\n<p>Stats?\u00a0 Baby N\u00a0 weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs 12 oz and is 21.5 inches long!\u00a0 He\u2019s huge!\u00a0 I\u2019m giddy!\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to hold that big ol\u2019 boy in my arms and sniff the baby head!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Praise God for the happiness and the joy unconfined!<\/span><\/span>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/TSetle0LigI\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/i6WA7dAdxQE\/s1600\/godchild.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/TSetle0LigI\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/i6WA7dAdxQE\/s320\/godchild.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 9 1\/2 years I\u2019ve been privileged to be friends with the Woman withe White Minivan, she has struggled and fought against her infertility.\u00a0 Two years ago, she finally seemed to make peace with it.\u00a0 Then God surprised us all when she discovered that she was miraculously pregnant last year. 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