Introducing....Baby Eli!!!!!! All Glory To God!!!!!!!

"Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! 

You are clothed with splendor and majesty..."

Psalm 104:1

(ESV)

For months I have longed to write this post.

And, now, dear friends, here it is!!!!!

I wish I had a larger font capability to say,

PRAISE GOD!!!!

Only HE could do what has been done!

Remember this little guy?

So many prayers have been prayed for him over the course of the past several months.

This morning, our dear Lord answered those many prayers, and He allowed him to make his grand entrance into this world...perfect and beautiful and more precious than words!

It is with great praise and honor and glory to God that Kristen and Mike introduce to you....

Baby Eli!!!!!!!!!!!

Just look at that sweet, beautiful face!!!

I tell you, my heart is so full of praise and gratitude to the dear Lord, I hardly know what to say!!!

Sometimes, all you can do is cry!!!!!!

There are just no words.

Zachary says that God has very BIG plans for Eli.

The name Eli means - "High, ascended, my God!"

And, how we glorify our great God this morning!!!!!

Seeing the look on my dear niece's face and the sweet, little bundle of joy in her arms fills my heart with a gratitude that can not be expressed in mere words!

The picture above surely speaks for itself.

To see how God has moved into the scene of this situation and allowed Kristen to go full term without premature labor and to watch how He spared both of their lives and permitted little Eli to be born healthy is what a modern-day miracle looks like.

My heart is deeply humbled by the overwhelming outpouring of prayers, love, encouragement, comfort, and kindness each one of you have extended to and upon behalf of my dear niece, Kristen, Mike, and their precious, precious baby boy, Eli.

I wish I could somehow convey to you all that is in my heart, but words fail me.

Every, single prayer you have prayed has been so deeply appreciated by all of us, and it has been heard and answered by our loving Father in Heaven.

I know some of you have even given up food to add fasting to your prayers, and I cannot begin to express how much this has moved and touched our hearts.

You are the body of Christ, His hands and His feet,

and you are very dear to me.

"Thank you" seems to sound so inadequate.

You have faithfully and tirelessly shared in the carrying of this burden, 

and now, today, I invite you to rejoice with dear Kristen and Mike and their brand-new, miracle baby boy, Eli!!!

And, dear friends, I ask you to please bear with me in asking for your continued prayers for Kristen in the days to come, as she will remain at risk for another blood clot for the next three months.

BUT, God!

He is still on the throne, as He has so vividly demonstrated this morning, and we know that if He can do what He just did, He can do ANYthing and everything that we ask.

Truly, He has, once again, fulfilled His promise in Ephesians 3:20.

He has done "exceeding, abundantly ABOVE all we could ask or think"!

Praise His holy name!!

I could NOT wait to share this news, and it feels like a thousand pounds has been lifted!

This trial has seemed never-ending, but, oh, the end result!!!!

"THANK YOU, DEAR LORD, from the bottom of my grateful heart for what You have done!"

"For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods."

Psalm 135:5

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