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The Story
| March 15, 2007 | Posted by lesbrown under BrownTown |
The Story
A lot of you have asked for the details on Paul’s interesting journey into this world. So, I’ve written up a little timeline of how everything went down. Yes, this really happened to us (I keep having to tell myself this).
The date is March 7, 2007.
7:30am Desi and I wake up. She mentions that she’s having a few contractions and that I should go ahead and go to work in case we have the baby later and I need to leave early.
8:00am After I shower and get dressed, I start feeding Abbie breakfast and getting her dressed.
8:20am Desi tells me that things are progressing quickly and that we need to get somebody to come pick up Abbie.
8:21am I start calling our list of folks who can watch Abbie.
8:35am I get ahold of Ann Piper, a friend from my high school days and current co-worker at Watermark. She’s not far away and heads over to get Abbie. I pull together the stuff we already had packed for Abbie and get her ready to go.
8:50am Ann arrives at our apartment. I meet her outside and get the car seat put in her car and load up everything. She takes Abbie up to Watermark for a fun day of playing with everyone in our office.
9:01am I call our midwife, Lindsey to let her know that we’re on our way to the hospital. I then take Buster the Boxer out to go potty.
9:14am After returning from taking Buster out, I throw our bags in the car and come back in for Desi. She lets me know that we’re not going to make it to the hospital. Whew! After letting that one sink in, I call 911 and then call Lindsey back. She hunkers down in an exam room with several of her staff listening in and begins to talk me through everything.
I look at Desi and can see that the baby is already crowning. My amazing wife has gotten all the way to this point, basically on her own as I’ve been running around taking care of everything else. Wow! Lindsey tells me to take off my shoes and pull out my shoestrings so I can tie off the umbilical cord. Smart. Then she has me get ready to catch the baby. On Desi’s next push, the head comes out and I can see that the cord is up over his shoulder or possibly around his neck. This freaks me out a ton, but I don’t say anything to Desi because there’s nothing we can do about it anyway.
9:18am On the next push Paul is born and I catch him quite easily and ease him down to the bed. I’m checking him out because of the cord thing but he’s doing fine. I’m talking to him, to Desi, and to Lindsey on the phone (who’s going completely nuts in a happy way) all at the same time. Welcoming him into the world and telling Desi how great he looks and how amazing she is. Lindsey tells me to tie off the cord and get him up next to momma. I do and Paul and Desi lie next to each other covered in blankets until the paramedics arrive a few minutes later.
9:26am After checking out Desi and cutting the cord, the paramedics load us into the ambulance and we head to the hospital. The paramedics are a little freaked out at first but they calm down in the ambulance and it’s actually kind of fun. Sort of like the first time you ever rode in a limo, but different.
By the time we got to the hospital they already knew to expect us and they checked out Desi and Paul and everything was fine. They cleaned up Paul and tended to Desi and we finally got to relax a little.
So, there’s the story in timeline form. I based the times off of my phone logs and a couple of checks of the clock I did along the way. If you’ll notice, Desi’s entire labor was less than two hours in length. Quite amazing. She suffered no complications and didn’t need one stitch or anything like that. Paul also did fine and needed no real intervention at the hospital other than the normal testing and checks that they do for any new baby.
God was totally taking care of this one. We had an amazing peace and great help. We’re extremely blessed and thankful that he allowed us to have our baby at home on our own bed and that everything went so well.
Thanks for all your prayers and congratulations. We’ve enjoyed hearing from you all.
Peace…
Les
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| July 31, 2003 | Posted by lesbrown under regular |
‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. ‘Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.’ (John 17:24-26 NIV)
this is a continuation of the prayer that Jesus prayed just before going to the garden and being captured. he’s praying specifically for all the believers that would follow the disciples, right up to the present time. i think the coolest part of this passage is in the last verse: I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.’
Jesus knows what he’s about to do. he’s about to go to an agonizing death on the cross. why? so that you and i can know the love of God. more than that, so that we can have the same love that God had for Jesus within us. and more than that, so that Jesus himself might be in us. honestly, i really don’t know how that last part works. i believe that it does, but i really don’t know how. the love of God thing, though, that i can understand somewhat. i think that’s what we’re all really searching for anyway. we try to fill that void a million different ways, but the thing we really want is to have the love of God in us. for believers, we should be experiencing that, right? but sometimes it seems that we either don’t feel it or don’t trust it for some reason. i don’t know why that is. i guess it’s the old sin nature just not wanting to die, or it’s the enemy trying to rob us of the full life that God intends. regardless, we should be on the lookout for anything that blocks us from experiencing the love God wants to implant in our souls. it’s the one thing that will truly satisfy the longings of our souls.
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| July 30, 2003 | Posted by lesbrown under regular |
‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:20-23 NIV)
Wow…this is really powerful. It’s the continuation of Jesus’ prayer from yesterday and now in addition to his disciples, he adds all the believers since and those in the future into the mix. my first impressions: what an honor to know that Jesus really was thinking of me as he was about to go to the cross. in addition, how great is it that his life and his words weren’t just for those back in 30ad, but for all of us up to now and into the future? this really speaks to the timelessness of the gospel.
and then there’s the detail of what he was praying for – in short – unity. in his final hours before unjustly enduring the most tragic torturous form of execution ever devised by man, jesus found it important to pray that the believers of the future would be made perfectly or completely one. does that mean there should be no denominations or differences of opinion? i don’t think so. i think it’s about being unified about the core issues of the faith: the trinity, the Godship of Christ, his sacrificial death, our being saved by faith, etc. and not letting petty issues divide us. why? so that the people of the world can see that God sent Jesus to do what he did and that God loves them. when the church argues and fights over petty issues and dogmas, the people of the world disregard the church as irrelevant and pointless, and they’re right to do so. the church has to find a way to celebrate our common ground and respect our different worship styles, our different teaching styles, and our different doctrines. I realize that there are some completely false teachings out there that go against the core of the faith and we should stand against those teachings, but for everyone else we have to learn to get along. why? so that the people of the world will see the church for what it should be, a group of people who love God, each other, and the people of the world. that’s part of our mission.
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