Hudson's "Belly Shoot"

We celebrated & anticipated Hudson's arrival with a few pictures of our growing family.  Sometimes during pregnancy it's difficult to see or feel the marvelous beauty & wonder that carrying a child truly is.  But I knew I'd want to have this precious moment in time, captured in a photo, to look back on and treasure forever. 
(and I'm already so happy I did) 
 How amazing and how awesome of a gift God gives to us mothers . . .

Psalm 139

You have searched me, Lord,

and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar. 

You discern my going out and my lying down; 

you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, 

you know it completely.

 

You hem me in behind and before, 

 and you lay your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,  

too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, 

you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

your right hand will hold me fast.

Even there your hand will guide me

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

your works are wonderful,

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand—

when I awake, I am still with you.

Search me, God, 

and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Thank You, Lord.
Your grace & love has poured into my life and I am blessed forever more.