Prayers for a Baby

Could you please stop what you are doing right now and say a prayer for a blog friend of mine?

I met Jodi while surfing sites. She and her husband Mike are really still newlyweds in my book, although they are coming up on their second anniversary.

Jodi started her blog as an effort to let off some steam about their inability to conceive. I read every word like it could have been mine, and I remembered that feeling of hopelessness and lack of understanding from back when Bruce and I thought we'd never have babies.

Miss Jodi is now several weeks pregnant following an in vitro procedure. They are so excited.

But they've received some scary and possible bad news with the latest round of tests, and I received an e-mail from her this morning. There is a chance of a defect. But because of some medical problems going on with Jodi, they can't even test the baby (they're calling her a "she") for certain.

I am not sure of this family's walk with Christ. I just know Jodi asked for prayer, specifically that her condition will resolve itself because it puts their baby at risk for suffocation.

I'm passing this on to you prayer warriors out there. Will you join me?

I'm not attaching a link to Jodi's blog because I know originally she had the impression that very few people were reading it, and that gave her a sense of release to put her feelings out there more plainly. But you don't need to know any more about her to pray for her.

God knows the details. He'll fill in the blanks.