Remember First to Say Thank You for Miracles!

Daily writing prompt

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

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The most fantastic news I received was 50 years ago when I learned during my fourth pregnancy that I would likely carry to full-term. My first thought was to thank God for hearing my prayers to become a mother. Like Hannah in 1 Samuel and Sarah in Genesis, I felt that I wasn’t fully a woman if I could not conceive and bear children. each monthly becomes so painful, but you try not to give up hope. I had suffered three miscarriages, so the news that I would keep the pregnancy was wonderful, even though it meant remaining in bed for five months. In the delivery room when my son was born, I thanked God, the doctors, the nurses, everyone in the room. I was so grateful for the miracle of a son.

It was miraculous that I became pregnant because I was told at age 17 that I would never conceive after being assaulted by a violent boyfriend and landing hard on the hood of a car and falling down to the ground. I hadn’t known I was pregnant, because in the 1960s, sex education wasn’t taught in schools and my mother never discussed with my sister and me anything pertaining to sex.

I had to have surgery, and afterwards, I received that awful diagnosis. It saddened me, but I went on to finish high school. Then, after I got married, my then-husband and I were surprised when I became pregnant, but the pregnancies never lasted longer than two or three months. So, in some ways, it was better not to conceive.

Then, at age 21, I adopted the four children that my sister left after she died unexpectedly at age 23. So, I became a mother through her. They were ages 2-6, so it was a tremendous adjustment. I couldn’t have loved them more if they had come from my body. After three years, I became pregnant again, and my son was born. I suffered one last miscarriage, four in all, before I took steps to avoid pregnancy.

What is amazing is that I still raised five children, and now I have 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren! So, I thank God for the miracles he wrought in my life by allowing me the privilege to be a mother! It has been the greatest accomplishment of my life, the hardest job ever, and the most joyful of all of all my occupations. To God be the glory for the victories in our lives.

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