Do not be anxious...

Throughout my pregnancy with Cameron, I worried about the delivery. I worried about when it would happen and what we would do with Braden when we had to go to the hospital. I worried about the physical delivery and whether or not it would be as taxing on my body as Braden’s delivery was. I started to get really stressed about it in the last month. I was stressed about possibly inducing and also about Cameron being really big at birth like Braden was. So, I tried to pray about it as much as I could. The night before he was born, I was praying, and really felt a sense of peace about it; that God knew the day and the hour already, that Cameron would be born at exactly the right time, and that I didn’t need to worry about it anymore. Philippians 4:6 kept coming to mind: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” This verse came back to me over and over again the next day during labor, and I kept silently repeating it to myself when I would start to feel overwhelmed. Cameron’s birth was an amazing experience, and I am so thankful that those words were written on my heart and that God used them to comfort me at just the right time.