"Inconceivable"

Several months ago a dear friend of mine who lives in Alaska sent me a book titled "Inconceivable."  At the time I was reading a Karen Kingsbury book, so I just put it on the shelf for another time.  I would walk by it every now and then (while dusting the shelf) and just look at it.  Well, the time came two weeks ago when I finally took the book off the shelf to read it not knowing at all what a blessing this book would be to me.  As you probably know by now, Josh and I have had a difficult year (+) trying to conceive another child.  I have had two miscarriages and lots of tears along the way.  I had no idea it could or even would be this hard to conceive another child considering it was very easy once we decided we wanted to start trying for Josiah.  We were blessed to get pregnant very quickly with him and I loved every second of being pregnant!!

The book "Inconceivable" is about a family who had two children without any issues and those boys were 10 and 12 years old.  The tried for many years to have another child and ended up doing IVF for their third child, a baby girl.  When they went in to use more of the embryos they had frozen from the previous retrieval the doctors put the wrong embryos in her.  Six weeks later when they found out they were successfully pregnant they also found out that they were pregnant with someone else's baby!!  They had the decision to make about whether or not to continue with their pregnancy and they chose to!  Praise the Lord.  I am about half way through the book.  I have gotten to the part where they are now meeting the parents of the child she is carrying.  I cannot imagine this ever happening to me.  For one of our pregnancies I was only 6 weeks along when we lost it and for the second miscarriage I was 9 weeks along.  This may sound crazy, but I feel like I bounded with those babies, so to carry one full term, deliver it and hand it over to someone else would have broken my heart beyond words!  The lady in the book was crushed knowing that the doctors told her for her health she should never be pregnant again.  The last baby she would carry and birth wasn't even hers.  The husband and wife end up hiring a surrogate mother to carry her last embryos in hopes to get more children...children that they prayed for and dreamed of.

Well, the other day I wrote in my facebook status about this book and one of my newer friends here commented back that the family from the book would be on the Today show that morning!! WHAT?  Seriously?  I read that comment at about 7:15am and quickly ran upstairs to our TV and started recording the show (thank God for DVR).  While Josiah was napping I figured I would just fast forward some and see if I started recording it in time!  Ten minutes into my recording they showed up on my TV screen!  I couldn't believe it!!!  Not only was I reading the book, but now I could meet this family on TV!!  They were there with all of their children...including 3 month old TWIN girls that were brought into this world by the surrogate mother using their last embryos!  The Lord blessed them for their faithfulness! What a blessing!!!!

I truly believe that the LORD has had this occur in my life.  The fact that I started reading this book when I did and then have the family be on television and I actually got to watch it is NO COINCIDENCE...it is a DIVINE APPOINTMENT!!  I am SO grateful for this book, for my friend, Jackie, sending it to me and for the Lord using it as such an encouragement and blessing in my life.