On the rough days...

Originally posted: July 9th, 2012

Every couple weeks I'll have a really rough, emotional day. Often because I feel overwhelmed with all I have to prepare for. On those days I like to listen to this song:

(The male vocalist's wife carried a baby girl with a life-limiting diagnosis.)

I Will Carry You (Audrey's Song)
by Selah 
from the album "You Deliver Me"

Lyrics:

There were photographs I wanted to take
Things I wanted to show you
Sing sweet lullabies, wipe your teary eyes
Who could love you like this?

People say that I am brave but I'm not
Truth is I'm barely hanging on
But there's a greater story
Written long before me
Because He loves you like this

[Chorus]
I will carry you
While your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
Through the coming years
I will carry you
All my life
And I will praise the One Who's chosen me
To carry you

Such a short time
Such a long road
All this madness
But I know
That the silence
Has brought me to His voice
And He says ...

I've shown her photographs of time beginning
Walked her through the parted seas
Angel lullabies, no more teary eyes
Who could love her like this?

[Chorus]

I will carry you

While your heart beats here

Long beyond the empty cradle

Through the coming years

I will carry you

All your life

And I will praise the One Who's chosen me

To carry you

It reminds me that while I've promised to carry these babies for however long they are supposed to be with us that Christ will carry me through the hard days for the rest of my life.

Profiles of Leif and Erik by ultrasound at 20 weeks.