Rebecca Inglis - May 10, 2020
One Thing I Know
I vividly remember the day I found out I was pregnant with twins. I was only about 9 weeks pregnant and I went to my obstetrician for an initial check-up and a dating ultrasound. He was way too quiet for the first few moments he was scanning my stomach, and I felt for sure that something was ‘wrong’. After what felt like an eternity, he showed me the heartbeat and measurements of a foetus and then continued… “And then we have another one over here, with another strong heartbeat, measuring the same…” From that moment everything else was a blur, and my world changed forever. The first thing I did, before I went home and spoke to anyone else, was to go to the nearby shopping centre and purchase 3 books about twins. Over the next few months I purchased another 5 books. I thought I needed to know all the facts, glean from other’s experiences, and learn ‘how’ to be a mother of twins. The reality was, that in the end my twins had not read the books about what they were supposed to do, and they were not exactly like all other twins people spoke about. It was interesting to hear others opinions and to get some tips from others who had been on a similar journey, but until my girls had arrived, I had next to no idea of how to be a mother of twins. In fact, the ‘knowledge’ confused me and left me feeling even more anxious. No amount of knowledge could prepare me for how amazing, and terrifying, it would be to become a mother of two babies at once. The information was overwhelming, but one thing I knew, from the moment I knew they existed, was that I loved these babies and I would do anything for them. More than seventeen years later, I am still not sure how to be a mother of twins most of the time. Like most mothers, I find myself making it up as I go along. This Sunday we look at the story of a blind man who was healed by Jesus. He didn't know what was going on - he didn’t even know who Jesus was. But he knew that something crazy had taken place. A miracle. An encounter. The Pharisees questioned him about what happened - the why and how and who, and whether it was right or if it was truly from God. But he could not answer. He could not, and so did not, debate the character of Jesus, because that was beyond his knowledge and experience. All the blind man could say was this, “I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind, but now I see!”
Scripture References: John 9:1-25
