Monday's Devotion

Monday, December 20, 1999

Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
(Matthew 1:18 NRSV)

After having two children, Fran Castro of Townsville, N.C., had a tubal ligation. She and her husband, Moe, had decided that their two daughters, Jessica and Sheree, then ages five and three, were enough. But the next year. Fran was sitting at the dining room table when she felt something move.

"Moe, if I didn't know better," she told him. "I'd swear I just felt a baby kick."
"You know that's not possible," he replied.
That's what Fran thought--until she went to the doctor. Five months later she gave birth to the couple's third daughter, Kristy.
Moe decided to get a vasectomy. After the procedure he confidently told Fran, "Now there's no chance of our ever having more children."
He was right . . . for a while.
In 1993, Fran started having the tell-tale signs of pregnancy again.
"No, it couldn't be," she thought. Out of curiosity she decided to buy a home pregnancy test--and was completely shocked when the result was positive.
Several months later Fran gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
"I've never delivered a baby where the mother has had a tubal ligation and the father has had a vasectomy." said Fran's physician, James Goodwin, M.D. "The odds of both procedures failing must be astronomical." He added. "All I can say is that this baby was destined to be here."
The Castros felt that way too. In fact, they named him Destin.

In their own way, the Castros were as mystified by this turn of events as were Mary and Joseph that first Christmas. Mary and Joseph had a son that was destined to be here. They named him Jesus, just as Joseph was told in a dream. Christmas is the story of a young couple who experience the miraculous in their life.

Dear Jesus, thank you for being the miracle of my life. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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