I look at these latest pictures of Baby Peterson and am overwhelmed at God's creativity, and to be able to observe the growth and development is amazing. To think this baby fits in the palm of your hand, that it has all his/her organs and features in place and just needs time. I offer up a prayer for this precious bit of forever, that it would be safe, that Elisabeth would be healthy and that peace and love would reign in this family.

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? . . .

Your hand will lay hold of me. It I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. . .

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. . .

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would out number the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. . .

Psalms 139