From Lori 

We moved from Champaign to Chicago,IL a good two and a half months before my due date. (Plenty of time for us to finish the construction of 3 bedrooms in the basement and to get somewhat settled before the new baby came.   But about two weeks after we moved I began having contractions. When I went to check it out at that hospital I suddenly began losing large amounts of blood. “Wait!! It’s not supposed to happen this way!!” - was all I could think. They were able to get my bleeding under control and were able to slow down the contractions- trying to keep the baby as long as possible in the womb. But three days later, there was no more stopping it. I had a partial placenta tear and lost more blood -but our tiny little son came into the world 2 months early. I received 3 units of blood but was ok- David was attached to machines that kept him alive. But three times in the next three days I was informed that they had to resuscitate my little baby- and each time God brought him back from the clutches of death-

 I remember feeling so weak and exhausted, and coming to God and asking Him for help. During that first week the nurses would often come to me in the middle of the night and tell me I needed to come and talk to David and calm him down - because if he cried it would burn too many calories- he was just too tiny.

So I would go and soothe him by singing “Day by Day and With Each Passing Moment” to him. That would always work to quiet him - and God would use it to quiet my heart as well-

“Day by day and with each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here. Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry or for fear…..  

Help me then, in every tribulation, so to trust Thy promises, O Lord. That I lose not faith’s sweet consolation offered me within Thy holy Word.” 

 Singing those words to my baby (and to my own heart as well) kept me focused on the promises that God gave me. Regardless of the circumstances, He loves me and His compassion will not fail,and is new every morning. Lam.3:23.

It reminded me that God promised never to leave me or forsake me and that He Himself will carry the weight of every burden I have. Ps. 68:19