Baby or not
God, do you think we should have another baby?
what a crazy thing to ask God, right? :) This is a funny story of God's awesome humor.
Should we have another baby now, or is it better to wait a year? I asked my Father in heaven for help. I saw a date as I was sitting praying, and also received the thought that I should ask Søren to do the same, asking God for the same date, in that way we would know if it was from God. I shared my thoughts with Søren and thought logically to myself that it probably wouldn’t happen, maybe I just had a funny thought, was it really from God and maybe it was to much pressure to put on Søren to say something like that.
About a week later I thought that he had probably forgotten all about it and that it was just 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, then it really had to be from 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 sad. 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 should not have that name.
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? 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. When our baby was born on Friday, Sept. 11, exactly one year after Søren came home and said he had the date, we decided that he should be named Joseph.
About 2 days later we went to the hospital, for baby check up, 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; oh how nice Johannes, only then it became 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!
