Proof The Bible Is True

I looked over my holiday shopping list. Two weeks until Christmas and I had everyone in the family covered—except for my daughter, Christel. I was a little stuck on her present. The one thing she wanted, I had no power to give.

 

Christel and her husband, Mike, had been trying to have a baby ever since they got married, 10 years earlier. Now, at age 33, after countless treatments and consultations, she didn’t know if she could take one more failed pregnancy test.

 

I looked back at my Christmas list and Christel’s name with nothing beside it. God, won’t you just go ahead and give her a baby? And then I heard it, quiet and gentle: Buy Christel a baby dress. She’ll have a girl by Christmas.

 

A baby by Christmas? Not this Christmas, surely. But even next Christmas would be pushing it. Plus, who gives a baby dress to someone struggling like Christel was?

 

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