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Genesis chapter 30, verse 22.

Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

It's interesting as we read through the story of scripture.

It is not uncommon to see a picture of barrenness in key women, particularly here in the story of Genesis.

Rachel is one, Rebecca before her, Sarah before her, struggling to bear a child, specifically to bear a son, and God over and over and over again, takes this picture of barrenness and turns it into a picture of blessing.

Now, that's not to say that everyone in the Bible and everyone who trusts in God, every couple, every woman who is barren is guaranteed to have a child.

That's certainly not a promise we have in the Bible, but we do have a picture of those who are

barren looking to God, crying out to God, and God answering in many different

powerful ways.

I think about this story in my own marriage as my wife, Heather and I longed for five years

to have children and month after month and year after year

praying for God to open Heather's womb and month after month and year after year after

not answering in the way we hoped and and and then, after leading us down a path of adoption

and adopting our first son from Kazakhstan and Caleb,

then we got back.

And in a way we never could have expected, God opened Heather's womb.

And we had a second son, Joshua. I don't understand.

We don't understand how, how, why for five years, nothing happened. And then all of a sudden,

she's able to have a son. And then similarly for the next three years, barrenness physically,

we knew we wanted to adopt again. We adopted our daughter from China, and her name is Mara,

and then three months later, Heather was pregnant, and we had our fourth child, a third son. That's not to say that that story will play

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