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To Be, Part 1 What happened to me was real. God did prepare us to lose our son, Cody. The experiences I had absolutely came from Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit. I know it beyond doubt. When people ask how I know it, I say that God knew my heart, and He knew that I would need this preparation. He knew beforehand that Cody would not stay with us. Jeremiah 1:5 supports this: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee…" The Lord knows all of our needs even before we do. I also believe, with all my heart, that anyone who has a premonition of SIDS can pray about it, ask God to let them keep their baby if it is His will. I believe in the possibility to change things through faith and prayer. But we must always believe that whatever happens, God has a reason. We must trust Him.  I trusted Him, and my story didn't
end with Cody's death. Just a few months after, one night in November of
1999, when I went to sleep, I had a dream. I could see myself in this dream,
and it was like a voice spoke to me and said, "You will have another child.
It will be a girl, and God will let you keep her." That was the dream. When
I woke up, I told my husband, Randy, about it. At the time, I thought it
was a strange dream, but it was so clear and vivid. I never forgot it. But
I was still engulfed in grief over losing Cody, and just didn't give the
dream much thought afterwards.One year later, also in November
(2000), I had a second dream. Randy had gone out of town on a hunting trip,
and I was alone and "something" told me to pray about having another child.
It had been one year and 3 months since we had lost Cody, and we were healing,
but were very lonely inside. So before dinner, I sat down and prayed to
God, and I said, "Lord, if it is in your will to send us another child,
then send me a sign of some kind to let me know. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen." That very night, I dreamed I was in the hospital, and the doctors
were handing me a baby, but I wouldn't let them tell me what it was. I unwrapped
the blanket and saw it was a girl, and I burst into laughter, because at
that moment, in the dream, I realized that it was God, who had sent me the
first dream, and I knew I would be keeping this child.When I woke up the next morning,
I thought, "Wow, I asked for it, I got it!" Randy called before
I left for work, and I told him of this dream. He said he felt it was a
sign from God. I couldn't help but believe the same. A few days later, though,
doubt crept into my mind, and I thought that maybe these had been just dreams
instead of signs. But I still could not stop thinking about them. Days later,
I started to look in the Bible and see if God would give this kind of information
through dreams and such. I found in several places (Matthew 1 & 2, and 1Kings
3 are great examples) that He did, or an angel of the Lord did come to people
in dreams. I started thinking my dreams were really Him speaking to me once
again.I told Randy I was going to ask
for just one more sign, and if I got it, then we would begin trying to have
another child. So once again, I prayed about it. A few days later, I had
a third dream. In this dream, I dreamed my cousin Beth and a woman I did
not know were talking, and I walked up to join the conversation. The woman
turned and looked at me, turned back to Beth, and said excitedly, "She's
going to have a baby girl!" The next day, I told Randy of the dream, and
I said "Ok, that's it!" I could not dismiss the fact that God had given
me three preparations for losing Cody, and now I had three dreams about
a future child. I knew we had to try. I gave testimony at my church (Randy
and I both were baptized after we lost Cody) in December of 2000 that I
believed God had come to me in these dreams, and I knew He would send us
another child.Another thing happened in December.
We did not put a Christmas tree up in 1999, but decided to in 2000. I had
started collecting angel figurines, and I had one that was transparent,
perfect for the top of our tree. I put the lights on the tree, and put the
angel on top, and placed the first light on the string underneath the angel,
so when I lit the tree, the angel would light up also. I lit the tree, and
I gasped at the angel. She was pink. I told Randy, this had to be another
sign.A year later, November seemed
to have some significance, because on November 1st, 2001, I found out I
was pregnant with our second child. I knew immediately in my heart this
was the little girl God had promised me in my dreams. I told everyone I
knew about my dreams prior to the ultrasound I had performed on January
23, 2002. I was 17 weeks pregnant. Our little girl, Emily Faith Griffin
will be born sometime around July 5, 2002. I know just what my first dream
confirmed, that God will let us keep her. I got up at my church, the same
night of my ultrasound, and gave testimony that God had kept his promise.
I don't know why God blessed me the way He has, but I do know one thing.
You can trust your dreams, because they do come true. 
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