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I'm honored and humbled by this opportunity, brothers and sisters, to be with you. One of the tools used to coach women in childbirth involves breathing.

So the reason for this is because it can help to oxygenate the mother and her unborn child,

to help to manage childbirth pain, and also to assist in relieving anxiety and fear.

So if you see me up here doing a cleansing breath and some pace breathing, you'll know why.

Using the literary technique of repetition, a cleansing bariff and some pace breathing. You'll know why.

Using the literary technique of repetition and completion, the prophet Isaiah wrote

this magnificent promise, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.

My text is guided today by this scriptural passage, drawing on personal and professional

life experiences, other scriptural passages, and the words of the prophets, waiting upon

the Lord.

As a woman and a nurse researcher focusing on women's health, when I first think of the

word waiting, I think of women bearing children.

Old Testament Hannah spoke of her experience when she said, For this child I have prayed,

and the Lord hath given me my petition which I ask of him.

Hannah waited upon the Lord.

Patricia Holland has suggested that, quote,

women appreciate the word labor in a way that no man ever can, end quote.

I believe this is so.

For nine months, a woman carries a child both beneath her heart and within her heart,

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