Hey Friends 🙂
When was the last time you were completely suprised by God?!
11 years ago today I was pregnant with baby #2. Our doctor completed an ultrasound, and assured us that we were 100% having a girl.
We were blessed to have three baby showers for “Baby Rebecca”. We painted “her” room in bright, beautiful colors and filled the soon-to-be nursery with pink onesies, frilly dresses, booties and more!
Soon the big day arrived! I delivered my new precious baby (without any drugs, I might add ~ not by my choice…another story!) ~ and quickly turned to the nurse and asked…
“Does she have red hair??”
The nurse replied, “HE DOES!”
“HE does????” I shockingly replied.
After the initial shock (and desperate attempt to come up with a boy name!) ~ we immediately rejoiced in God’s provision and sense of humor! Benjamin James Bultema was born! 🙂
If you attended Mars Hill Bible Church in 2001, you may remember Benj’s story! Our friend and pastor Rob Bell got a big kick out of sharing with the congregation of 10,000+ the story of Benj’s birth.
I’ll never forget when Rob called the hospital soon after Benj’s birth and said, “Cindy, I told everyone at 9Â AM & 11 AM services, and can’t wait to do it again at 6”. For many years, folks would say, “Oh, is this your baby girl? Snicker. snicker.”
That’s ok ~ God knew EXACTLY what He was doing!!!
Happy, Happy Birthday Benj!!! We love you and thank God every day for making you uniquely you ~ and totally sports crazy, 100% boy!
And I’m also grateful you love a good celebration ~ just like your mom! 🙂
When was the last time you were completely suprised by God?! I’d love to hear you story!
Thanks for stopping by *She Sparkles*, my friend! Have a wonderful, joy-filled weekend!
Sweet blessings –Â
P.S. I love my husband John’s note to Benj on FB today…”Happy Birthday Tiger. That’s what I called you when I gave you your first bath because you didn’t have a name yet!!” 🙂
Hey, friend!
Oh, you hear about stories like this all the time, but I never actually knew someone this happened to. When was the last time God surprised me? There have been some recent works situations, when before the prayer is out of my mouth God has already worked things out. Love those kind of surprises!
Great story! God certainly does know what He is doing even if our imperfect selves don’t always know at first. Happy Birthday to your handsome son. 😀
My best surprise ever, was the day my husband got saved, after I had been praying for him for 15 years. A preacher from my church called and asked if he could come over and to my total surprise my husband said…yes! I thought there was no way he would want to sit and listen to pastor Norm…but he did…and after a couple of hours, I had a new husband…after he asked Jesus to come into his heart. That was 18 years ago this coming December!
As I said…my best surprise ever!
I love your surprise Cindy! He is a handsome little guy!
Love, Linda