Noah Is a Dad!

Posted by Kevan Breitinger Oct 28, 2006

Pillar's Noah Henson does not mince words in his joyous bulletin. He holds nothing back as he tells of the couple's surprise (they were expecting a boy) and joy at the Lord's goodness:

"Hello to all from Noah,

"I've been looking forward to writing this Journal entry for a while now because, well, for one i haven't written one in a while, and two i'm excited to tell you all just how amazing God has been to my wife Lindsey, and I. First off i want to say, to all the single guys out there and who think they just might have experienced what true manhood is, or should be, let me just say.....you have NOT a clue until you have experienced the birth of the child that God has graciously and miraculously blessed you with. When that first tear comes dripping, then flowing, then gushing out of your eyes, you have seen what it is to experience, just a taste of it. And then, true manhood has just begun.

On the morning of October 19th, 2006, at 6:33a.m., i experienced that very thing. The very minute our brand new baby girl, for all who thought we were having a boy, came into this world i think every emotion that exists in the history of man hit me and tore throughme like a sharpened two edged sword. I looked in amazement at the form of human life laying before me, and for a second i thought to myself, "Thats not a boy!?" And our doctor, amazing as he is, looked up at me with a face of confused guilt and said very softly with a smirk, "...its...a girl?!" Of course a matter of seconds later the shock of her not being a boy wore off and we began celebrating unceasingly. When they put her under the warmer all i could do was stare at her gorgeous face in awe of this amazing creation lying before me. My flesh and blood, my sweat and tears, my heart and soul. God is amazing, and i'll tell you this, God had different plans for me and Lindsey. After months of anticipation and planning and buying boy clothes and thinking about what i was going to do with my new boy and the football games and the wrestling and playing cowboys and indians and cops and robbers, etc...etc...etc... From the minute she was

born to even these minutes as i write this entry, i realize just how awesome God is and how his plans for us are so very different than we think they should be. Every moment i spend holding my daughter, looking into her eyes and staring in amazement, i realize that she is everything I ever needed and more. I can't imagine anything else or the thought of not having her here. Gosh i just can't describe the blessing she has been in our lives. I have cried more in the past week than i have in the last 5 years, because i am so

overwhelmed that God would give me everything i could dream and more. I feel so unworthy. Father in heaven, i owe you everything. Nothing i have can i give myself

credit for. You order my steps and i proceed with conviction and hope. You have saved me from the utter mess that i would become if i tried to take control of my own life. You know me because you molded me from nothing and you gave me the gifts and the character

that you did knowing where i would put them and what i would do with them, even with my failures and successes. We have come so far together. God, i love you. Thank you.

Our daughter's name is Hannah Elizabeth Henson. She was born at 6:33a.m. October 19th, and she weighed 6lbs 2oz, and was 20.25 inches long. Thank you all for

welcoming her to the family.