No Coincidence

I don’t believe in coincidence or even chance. I believe that everything happens for a reason and that many of the things that happen to us are directed by God. I always find it funny when people say things like “What are the chances of running into you here?” or “Wow what a coincidence”. Instead I think things like “WOW God, you knew I needed to see them today didn’t you?” or “I wonder why God crossed our paths today?”.

This is what happened to me last night. We were at church for the Saturday evening service. The worship leader is a long time dear friend of ours. He is newly married to his wife whom I don’t know all to well yet. In fact I have only met her once. But in that one time of meeting her I had felt a real connection with her. Last night when I saw her singing on stage a thought came across my mind, ”You need to talk to her, see if she has heard Israel’s story yet.” For me, it is still hard to tell people the story at times. I don’t just go around telling everyone everything. I am still emotional and often don’t feel like I can just talk about it as if it were just another piece of news. Non the less, when the service was done, I sought her out and found her. I chit chatted at first, but caught myself and got to the point. I asked her if she had heard the news on our baby. She said she hadn’t. I then shared the story of all we had learned about Israel this past week. She listened intently and said this to me. “My granddaughter is a miracle baby herself”. She shared with me the story of how God healed her little granddaughter when doctors said she was dying. It was amazing! Wow I thought! A miracle indeed! She continued on to ask me if we needed a good Perinatalogist (A doctor who specializes in high-risk & abnormal pregnancies). I haven’t talked about this in our blog yet, but to make a long story short, the Perinatalogist we saw basically told us in a few more word then this, that we should just terminate the pregnancy because our baby would have a hard life. She was very unsupportive our of decision to NOT do that and didn’t have much to say to us after we told her our decision was to keep the baby. With this being said, we did want a new doctor. One who would support us in our decision to keep our baby and encourage us in every way he could. My friend continued on to tell me about the doctor her daughter saw for her perinatal care and it turns out it is a doctor in the same practice as the one we had seen. I was thrilled to hear this because I can choose any doctor in the office that I want! She ended with saying this to me, “It isn’t chance that we are in one another’s lives and that we are having this conversation. Little Israel is going to touch so many people’s lives and I just can’t wait to see it!”

NOPE! That was NO coincidence that we had that conversation. I thank God that He had His hand in making that conversation happen. I feel excited to see a new doctor, one who was recommended to me, not just a name I had to pick off a list.

PRAYER - Please pray that when I call the office on Monday that there will be no problem getting in with this new doctor and that he will be the perfect fit for our family.