And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19 NIV).
When our twins were born while Donn was still in graduate school and we lived in an efficiency apartment, I thought the timing of their birth was terrible. It wasn’t until eight months later after he got an eight-to-five job and we were renting a three-bedroom, two-story house that I realized how very wrong I’d been!
Robbie and Angie had been born during Donn’s semester break which allowed him to lend support and take over jobs that might otherwise have been overwhelming. Later, when classes were in session, he came home between classes to help. Not only did he prepare sixteen bottles of formula every day, but also wrung out endless mounds of diapers and made countless trips to our basement laundry two floors below. Our babies rarely experienced the “propped bottle” syndrome common with twins.
After our move, alone in a strange neighborhood from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., I discovered caring 
for two infants without help was not an easy job! How would I have managed everything alone when his mother went home three weeks after our twins’ births? With the clear vision of hindsight, I could see God’s perfect timing that had allowed my husband’s presence during those crucial early months of our twins’ lives.
Thank you, Father, that although I wanted the security of a full-time job for Donn and the space of a large home at the birth of our twins, You mercifully supplied the things I really needed–my husband’s help and a small apartment to keep clean! Amen.
Our first single-family, rental house in Franklin, Pennsylvania (rear view). (January 1974 to November 1974)
Photo 1 Donn, Angie, and Robb at our house in Franklin. Somehow they knew when it was time for Daddy to come home and would wait for him at the door! Photo 2 Robbie in a mountain of diapers in our apartment at Purdue University! Photo 3 Donn diapering one of our babies in 1973.
(Devotional from Homespun Faith, Reflections from the Seasons of Life, copyright 2014 Daisy Beiler Townsend. Available as paperback or ebook: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Xulon Press. Locally at Fresh Grounds, M & M Grocery, Leanna’s Books, Penn Alps in Grantsville, Maryland, or from me 724-373-8445 or donaisy@neo.rr.com.)
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