Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Our Baby Kelsey

Kelsey Farah Penny
Born 15 February 2012
Latifa Hospital, Dubai
4kg, 52cm

My dearest, blessed Kelsey,
God formed your inward parts; He knitted you together in my womb.
I praise God, for you are  fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are God's works; my soul knows it very well. 
Your frame was not hidden from God,when you were being made in secret, 
intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 
God's eyes saw your unformed substance; in His book are written,
every one of them, the days that were formed for you, when as yet there was none of them.
(My paraphrased prayer of Ps 139:13-16)


  My prayer and hope and desire is that whatever and however long those blessed days with Kelsey may be, that I be faithful and committed and loving through them all, repentant and asking forgiveness when I fail this dear child, and pointing her to her awesome Father and Creator, who has given her to us for now to love, admonish, care for and cherish. 

We thank and praise the Lord for this undeserved, but beautiful gift,
our Kelsey Farah;
"Ships full of Joy".