{"id":382,"date":"2006-10-23T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=382"},"modified":"2006-10-23T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T17:51:43","slug":"grasping-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2006\/10\/23\/grasping-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasping Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Isaiah 49:15-16<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">When Isaac was still in the NICU, our nursing relationship was pretty rocky. I was desperate to make it a success because I needed to heal from all our previous losses. There&#8217;s nothing that&#8217;s more a kick in the gut than your body preparing to nurture a little life that&#8217;s no longer on this earth. So in order to fully heal, I needed to make nursing a success.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But it wasn&#8217;t working. The whole NICU experience was overwhelming for all of us, and I was afraid that we&#8217;d never get that nursing &#8220;dance&#8221; down pat. In those few minutes we were home each day before heading out to the hospital during that Christmas week, I&#8217;d weep in prayer asking for God&#8217;s help in getting him to just latch on. On New Year&#8217;s Day, just as I was about to give up, we figured it out!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Months later on\u00a0graduation morning&#8211;exactly a year after we discovered that our little Isaac was growing in my tummy&#8211;I fully understood the meaning of this passage in Isaiah. That 3-hour Convocation ceremony was the longest time Isaac and I had been apart, and I began to grasp what God meant in verse 15.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">God aches for us when we&#8217;re apart.\u00a0He can&#8217;t forget us. He can rest when He&#8217;s nurturing us, cooing at us, and enjoying us. 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