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"Looks like you have about a 5% chance of ever having a second child."

The doctor's words were unwelcomed for the young couple had wanted another child for so long. The two of them had prayed for a long time and now they sought prayers for this situation from their Sunday School class. Then God spoke to the husband saying,

"Before this next year is over, you will have a child." And it was so............

Nineteen years ago today, that promise came to pass. Our grandson, Joel, came into this world. What a blessing he has been ! Very much a leader among his peers during his school years and at their church. He has such a compassionate heart and is such a joy to our family! We know that just as God promised a child would be born to this couple, He has promised to guide him along life's journey.

We don't know what life holds for this young man as he journeys off to the U of A to being his college life in a few days, but we know that God knows and in His time anything is possible.

Hundreds of years ago, God promised another couple that He would send them a child after the wife had been barren for many years.

"Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac" Genesis 21:1-3