A Beautiful, Terrible, Life-Changing, Faith-Forming Time

(And a Prayer To Go With It)

He had only been alive for a few hours, but he’d already endured much.

Beyond the trauma any of us go through in just being born, he was immediately rushed to the NICU. He didn’t get to be held by his mother who labored to birth him. Instead, strangers poked and prodded at him as unfamiliar voices directed the action. IVs pierced his skin. A tube ran up…