the center of it all

For any poor readers just stumbling across the blog and have no idea what we're talking about, we're talking about this.  I promise to talk about something else soon.

Update: when Matt, Kerline and Maxi arrived at the hospital at 8 am, the doctors wanted to wait and see if Kerline could have a natural birth.  Get in line.

After several hours, they have agreed that if that was possible, things would be looking a lot different.  And Kerline is wiped.

So, the doctor said they do need to do a C-section, and sent Maxi to the pharmacy with a huge list of meds and instruments needed to do the procedure.  He and Matt went to the pharmacy, bought all the stuff needed, rushed back to the hospital, and they are all now waiting for the C-section to happen.

Their appointment for said C-section, after 24 hours now of contractions, is "when it is time."

I'm trying so hard to remain in a state of prayer and trust, striving after being "wonderfully poised even in the center of it all" as Chambers describes below.  What better time to see God's life expressed through mine than in life-moments such as these of concern, mis-trust, uncertainty and fear.

Grateful for your prayers.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing, but in God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit divine characteristics in your life, not just good human characteristics. God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly. 

The secret of a Christian’s life is that the supernatural becomes natural in him as a result of the grace of God, and the experience of this becomes evident in the practical, everyday details of life, not in times of intimate fellowship with God. And when we come in contact with things that create confusion and a flurry of activity, we find to our own amazement that we have the power to stay wonderfully poised even in the center of it all.