Pre-Birth Beginnings
MY STORYI'd like you to celebrate life with me. MY LIFE! I am 90 years old this week! It's true that my BIRTHday is in the spring, but my "AliveDay" is this week.
One mysterious moment a very determined daddy cell and an eager mommy cell joined together to make one singe cell - ME!! And suddenly I was ALIVE!
Yep it was me! At exactly God's perfect time in history He purposed those two cells to become Me! All the days ordained for me were written in God's Book before one of them came into being.
I was pretty tiny, that one little cell, but it was me alright, and I was alive! All my hopes, dreams, desires, talents and shortcomings, and most of all God's plan for ME started to materialize right then - because He had painstakingly designed me with much loving care. he knew my name, personality and future even before I became that one cell. He knew I'd fall short of His perfection - but would one day accept His Son Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
That one cell that was me began to divide over and over - and over again - one cell became 2, then 4,8,16, and a ball formed of many, many cells. And it was me! God was knitting me together moment by moment as I continuously doubled my cells.
I multiplied until I was so many cells it was impossible to count - and I began to form a shape - the shape He had laid out specifically for me - I was fearfully, wonderfully and uniquely created by God to be ME!
At first my Mommy and Daddy didn't even know I was there, but I was alive and growing - safe, warm, and not even hungry! God smiled a few weeks later as my heart began to beat, and He watched as my arms and legs formed. Then my toes and fingers - these very fingers - the ones that play the piano. He oversaw this nose and these ears, finger nails and eyelashes as they came into existence; and I began to look something like me.
God even saw today, this very day some 90 years later, when I would be telling you about my hidden journey.
Hidden from the world, but very much alive to God, my tiny muscles grew and I began to move my arms and legs - after a while my Mommy could even feel me moving. I had lots of room to start with but after awhile it was getting pretty cramped in there, and it became time for me to stretch out and move on.
By the time my springtime BIRTHday arrived I had already lived the first 9 months of my earthly life.
Each of you started out this way too - God was watching over you as that one cell that was you began. he knew your name and the detailed, special plan He created for Your life.
So please celebrate with me as I praise and thank my Creator finding joy in the journey that God STILL has set before me. Celebrate "AliveDay" with me today - 90 earthly years and counting!
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