Rejoicing in the Lord

It's been a bit of a rough evening (well, after a really fun time of watching Ella Enchanted with my parents, that is!) , just as Caleb and I've been talking over the induction and really praying for wisdom in knowing whether to go ahead with it on Friday or wait a few more days. Sometimes it just gets really frustrating wondering why God won't bring our baby now. I was feeling kind of depressed, and felt like He brought this passage from Habakkuk on my mind that I'd read recently so I went back and re-read it again. Even knowing that his county is going to be taken over by invaders soon, he still rejoices in the Lord:

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.

It strikes me that that would be a much harder thing to wait for than a few days for our Baby Grace!

And thank you all for the encouraging comments and emails and phone calls; I know we've been really slow in responding right now, but we really appreciate them! :-)

-Laura