Today as we rejoice and celebrate Easter, we praise the Father for the new life that Jesus gave the world. As He rose from the dead that glorious day, He fulfilled the promise that all those who believe in Him and call Him Savior shall rise with Him from death in ashes to radiant life. We are free to claim eternity in heaven because of His sacrifice. We are secure in knowing we will see our loved ones again; and for our family we know we will hug and kiss our Madelyn again, because of this sweet promise. As we thank God for this new life, we could not have planned a better day to celebrate and share with you the sweetest new life that we are also praising our Father for on this Easter morning—our hope baby. 
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Sending Madelyn Grace to heaven at a time that didn’t make sense, before she took her first breath, has taught us so much. We have learned what it means to truly surrender all to the Father. Our fears, our hopes, our marriage, our children. As much as we hope to hold this sweet one in November, alive and well, we do not know what God knows. As much as we plan to kiss our boys goodnight at the end of the day, we do not know God’s plans. Our ways are not His ways, and our plans are not His plans. But what we do know, without a shadow of a doubt, are that His ways and plans are GOOD. They are higher and better than anything we can imagine, even when the flesh doesn’t understand them. So while this tiny miracle that is sweetly growing is just shy of six weeks along, we simply could not hold this beautiful secret in. Because it is not our miracle. It’s God’s. It is not our story to tell. It’s His. So this morning we are shouting from the rooftops with joy in our hearts over what He has done. Over the story He is writing. Because it’s not just this pregnancy, although we have been in awe of it since the day we learned of it. It’s ALL He has done. It’s how He has held us in darkness. How he has pulled us up from the grave. How He has breathed new life and new hope, and hasn’t stopped. Having walked with the Father through the difficult times has given us the freedom to walk even closer with Him now, and closer and closer still, with each passing day.
When we released balloons to our Madelyn in heaven just a few weeks ago, she and Jesus had a secret. They knew there was already a tiny one in my belly. I am in awe of the Father when I try to comprehend this. I can see her giggling and whispering with Jesus, as they talked not about the presents we were sending to her, but of the present they had already sent to us. We do not know what tomorrow will bring. But we do know, at the end of times, we will be with Jesus. And ALL of our babies will be there. 🙌🙌🙌 So we will continue to joy in the suffering and blessings. We will praise Him through the storms and when the rainbows come. Always holding onto hope, always giving Him the glory. Forever and ever. Amen.
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