Last night, I heard the saddest news.  A church member (from Ann Arbor) just lost her unborn baby last week.  It would be a little easier to handle if she was in her first trimester, but she was in her 8th month and the baby was due around Thanksgiving time.  In the morning, she felt her baby girl kicking, and by that afternoon, when she went in for her routine check-up, the doctors failed to find a heartbeat.  The baby had passed away.  They induced her a few days later and after a long labor, she gave birth to their stillborn child. 

While these things are difficult to understand, we have to have faith that God knows what He’s doing.  This situation has caused me to put myself in her shoes and wonder how I would handle it.  It reminded me of Ellen White who actually prayed that God would take her children if living on would cause them to lose their salvation.  In times like these, it’s so comforting to know that there exists a God who loves us so much and is willing to do whatever it takes to save us.  Through the eyes of faith and against our carnal nature, we know that even situations like this somehow work together for good to them that love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose. 

Please keep this family in your prayers…