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I looked over my holiday shopping<\/a> list. Two weeks until Christmas and I had everyone in the family covered\u2014except for my daughter, Christel. I was a little stuck on her present. The one thing she wanted, I had no power to give.<\/p>\n

Christel and her husband, Mike, had been trying to have a baby ever since they got married, 10 years earlier. Now, at age 33, after countless treatments and consultations, she didn\u2019t know if she could take one more failed pregnancy test.<\/p>\n

I looked back at my Christmas list and Christel\u2019s name with nothing beside it. God, won\u2019t you just go ahead and give her a baby?<\/i> And then I heard it, quiet and gentle: Buy Christel a baby dress. She\u2019ll have a girl by Christmas.<\/i><\/p>\n

A baby by Christmas? Not this<\/i> Christmas, surely. But even next Christmas would be pushing it. Plus, who gives a baby dress to someone struggling like Christel was?<\/p>\n

But the voice was insistent. A dress for a baby girl.<\/i><\/p>\n

I was convinced the instruction came from above. Despite everything I knew to be true, I had to listen. I went to the mall, where I picked out a dress for a newborn. When I got home, I wrapped it and attached a note: You don\u2019t need this gift today, but next year you will, for your baby girl. Love, Mom.<\/i><\/p>\n

I was a bundle of nerves on Christmas Day<\/a>, worrying what Christel would think of my gift. But when she opened the box, she held the dress up for everyone to see. \u201cLooks like we\u2019re going to have a baby girl by next Christmas!\u201d she said. The family gasped. Tears streamed down Christel\u2019s face. Were they tears of joy\u2014or had I made the biggest blunder of my life?<\/p>\n

A few weeks after Christmas, I called my daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny news?\u201d I blurted out when \u201cChristel picked up the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelax,\u201d she said, laughing. \u201cI promise if I get pregnant you\u2019ll be the second person to know after Mike.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hung up, disheartened. I\u2019d been so sure the voice I heard had come from God. Had I wanted so much for Cristel to be happy that I\u2019d imagined the whole thing?<\/p>\n

January passed, then February and March. Every time I saw Christel, she seemed more and more withdrawn. She always put on a brave face, but I knew her hopes were fading once again. I told her that God performed miracles<\/a> in his own time. But even I wasn\u2019t so sure anymore. All out of options, I changed my strategy. I went back to begging and pleading with God.<\/p>\n

God, it\u2019s too late for a Christmas baby this year<\/i>, I prayed, but could you let Christel get pregnant by next Christmas?<\/i><\/p>\n

By summer, I stopped asking God for favors and stopped asking Christel for baby updates. It was too painful for her and too embarrassing for me.<\/p>\n

Then one afternoon in October, Christel called to chat. She actually sounded cheerful<\/a>. Excited even.<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, how do you feel about adoption?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great,\u201d I said with a sigh, \u201cbut it\u2019s a long and difficult process…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, a friend of a friend wants to give her baby to a couple who can\u2019t have children. She\u2019s ready to sign the papers. And\u2026her due date is December.\u201d<\/p>\n

I just about dropped the phone. Could this be God\u2019s answer to my prayer? For the first time in nearly a year, I felt hopeful again.<\/p>\n

Everything happened so quickly after that. A lawyer was hired, the papers were signed, and on the morning of December 16, the call came. The baby girl we\u2019d all been dreaming of and praying for since last Christmas was finally here.<\/p>\n

At the hospital, Christel had to tear baby Carlee away from me! We couldn\u2019t wait for her to model her Christmas dress I\u2019d bought at God\u2019s prompting.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Christel called and said she needed me to come over right away. I raced out the door. When I got there, I found Christel and Mike grinning like teenagers. Carlee was sound asleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you sit down,\u201d Mike said, gesturing toward an overstuffed rocker in the family room.<\/p>\n

I took a seat, right on top of something hard and plastic. I pulled the object out from under me and set it on the coffee table. Mike and Christel waited until it hit me what it was\u2014a pregnancy test.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve taken a million of those,\u201d Christel said. \u201cThat\u2019s the first one that\u2019s been pink. I\u2019m pregnant!\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d wished for a baby girl and prayed for a pregnancy by Christmas. Well, God delivered on his promise\u2026and then some. By the following December, our family celebrated not one but two little miracles\u2014my healthy, happy grandkids<\/a>, Carlee and Carson.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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