Baby or not
God, do you think we should have another baby?
what a grazy thing to ask God, right? :) This is a funny story and God's awesome humor.
Should we have another baby now, or is it best to wait a year? I asked my Father in heaven for help. We had 2 little boys and it wasn’t because I was bored. So, I saw a date for me, after which I should ask Søren to also ask God, so that it could be confirmed in this way. I shared my thoughts with Søren and thought to myself that it probably wouldn’t come to anything, it was maybe a bit of pressure to say something like that.
About a week later I thought that he had probably forgotten all about it and that it was probably best not to mention it anymore, if it really was something, God had to speak to him.
On Friday, Sept. 12, he came home from work and told me that he had received a date from God, I was a little nervous, what were the odds that we had received the same date, so it really had to be God. We stood out in the kitchen and both had our pieces of pink note paper ready to write on and give each other our date, I now had his and he mine, did we really dare to look, it would just be too wild or too bad. We turned them over, the seriously wildest coolest feeling cheered and jumped inside me, yes it quickly appeared in the form of the wildest kangaroo jumps and cries of joy in the kitchen, we had the same date: Dec. 16 was written on both of them.
We found out a few years later that 16 in the Bible stands for love, totally wild to live with God.
He just shouldn't be called that.
or what?
At the end of December when our pastor preached in church, he suddenly pointed directly at me and said: He should be called Johannes, it burned inside me and normally I wouldn’t take it so seriously, because a pastor can often point down to the congregation, but this time I protested, because I had thought of the name Joseph, even back before Daniel was born, which we also have a lovely story about, In the car on the way home I suddenly said to Søren: he shouldn’t be called Johannes, we didn’t know whether it was a girl or a boy and hadn’t told anyone yet that we were expecting a baby, but of course we believed that God had blessed us with one. He looks at me strangely, what do you mean? he says and I told him what I had just experienced.
As time went by, I thought it probably wasn’t from God, until our children’s church leader prays for me and the baby, she starts praying that he might become a light like Johannes, etc. but no, it didn’t stop there because later again another female leader mentions the name Johannes about the baby, I kept thinking that it was definitely all a coincidence, so when our baby is born on Friday, Sept. 11, exactly one year after Søren came home and said he had the date, we decide that he should be named Joseph.
About 2 days later we go to the hospital and have a blood test, where nurse Helga asks our 2 boys what their new little brother’s name is, they answer that his name is Joseph and she says in response Johannes says, no Joseph they say, well Johannes she says, only then does it become clear to me that if God could not get through to me by speaking from 3 leaders in the church he had to use Helga which means holy, to speak directly to me.
I started thinking about the story with Johannes from the Bible and about the father Zechariah, who couldn’t believe it either, I thought it was a bit like what I was going through and I got a certain fear of God.
Finally Peace!
We agreed that he should be named Joseph Johannes, as we also believed that the name Joseph was given to us by God and a wonderful peace came over the decision.
Joseph Johannes means God will increase, the Lord has shown favor/grace and that is just what we believe God has for us, more of his super wonderful favor/grace
All glory to God and we get the blessing.
