Right Before We Left

Right Before We Left

A Jon Post

First comes discomfort,

8:00 AM hospital, waiting, waiting, 2 hours, doctor, nurse, smiles.

            Words fail at the beauty of my wife

 

Then comes waiting,

Drive home, nothing, bouncing on a round rubber ball, hope, questions, memories, playing worship music, 3 more hours.

            Breathtaking love displayed in my wife

 

Then comes ache,

Small pains, talking through them, worship together, looking at the clock, tears together, just one hour, back to the hospital

            Fire and purity in my wife’s eyes

Pain

Pain

 

Then comes pain,

“Oh it hurts”

            -My wife’s beauty, the glory of God’s creation, masked in pain, the sentence of Eve’s sin-

            A smile, a tear, eyes shut like thunderstorms before the rain,

            “Oh glory, oh pain… bring life, please bring life. Unchain my wife from her torment”

 

Then come groans,

First Seconds of Life

First Seconds of Life

“Oh stop”

            Helpless trust, breathless trust, desperate trust

            “Oh Christ save, deliver, redeem!!!”

Then push

Then comes pain

Then push

Then comes pain

Then push

Jovie

Jovie

Then comes pain

Then comes pain

Then comes pain

Then comes JOY

Then comes FAITH

Then comes my daughter

 

THEN COMES JOY

Family

Family

THEN COMES FAITH

Then comes my daughter

 

…yeah… that’s her

 

My wife is glowing…

 

Welcome dear.

Welcome Jovie Fé

 

 

My Incredible Wife

My Incredible Wife

 

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Alive

Alive

 

 

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