In honor of Baby Justis:
Dear Becky showed signs of a bloomer,
She feared cancer or other such rumor.
But a baby is blamed,
And though Justis he’s named,
I’m going to call that kid “Tumor.”
Here is the story from my brother in law’s ministry newsletter on the history in more detail of how they were introduced to Justis.
An On Time God!
As I sit here and think of all the things I want to say in this newsletter all I can think about is what an awesome God we serve! He is always on time and is always in control.
I wanted to tell you what he has done in The Bowen Family’s lives.
Back in August of last year Becky came to me and told me she thought she might be pregnant. To be honest with you I really hoped she wasn’t. We were traveling and ministering in churches as a family for the last three years and things were going really good for us. I started thinking, how will we travel? What will we travel in? It’s going to be even more tough to travel with five kids.
After a pregnancy test that showed negative I was relieved. Then a month later Becky told me that something wasn’t right. She said she felt like something was growing in her stomach and if it wasn’t a baby then what could it be?
She took another test and again it showed negative. She began to get concerned even more because 9 1/2 years ago her mother died of cancer, so Becky thought it might be a sist or a tumor that was growing inside her.
I told her I was praying and believing that it wasn’t cancer and nothing was going to harm her. I told her to go get an ultrasound just to see what was growing in her stomach. She made an appointment and took our son Landis with her. She didn’t tell him what she was going to get checked out for other than just a check up. She had him stay in the other room while she was being checked because if the doctor found something she didn’t want Landis to worry.
Becky told the doctor her concerns and he said “well let’s just see what it is”. About 30 seconds later he said “well you do have something growing in you! It’s a baby growing in you”!
Becky said she just about fell off the table. She said “are you sure” and he said “yes can’t you see the spine”?
She was so thankful to find out that it was a baby and not a tumor.
Landis came in the room and Becky asked him what it looked like on the monitor and he said “I don’t know”.
She said “take a closer look” and then he said “a baby”? Becky said “yes! Do you want to know what it is? It’s a boy”!
Landis was so excited to be getting a baby brother. He later said he had been praying for years to have a baby brother but then gave up because he thought it wasn’t going to happen.
We actually found out she was going to have our baby boy when she was 17 1/2 weeks into it.
We are so thankful to God for his blessings of children. The bible says blessed is the man who’s quiver is full!
The Lord knew that I needed a bass player!
Getting close to the due date I was scheduled to be gone for 21 days ministering in West Texas, Western Oklahoma and New Mexico. I canceled a couple of the first churches thinking the baby would be born soon. He didn’t show up so on March 5th Landis, Hope, Faith and I left for Snyder, Texas to be gone for 16 days.
We had our laptops with web cams just in case the baby came while we were gone so we could see him when he was born. The last 5 days of our trip he hadn’t been born yet. I told Becky that I believed that he was going to wait till his daddy got home from the road trip. Our last date was Sunday night March 20th in Clayton, New Mexico which is 1000 miles from home.
We left Monday morning from Amarillo, Texas and drove straight home 965 miles and 15 hours.
We arrived at home at 10:45 PM Monday night and at 12:00 AM the contractions began. At 2:52 AM Justis Loy Bowen was born! See what I mean about God’s timing?
Justis and Becky are doing fine and daddy is too! Tired but fine!
We want to say thank you for your prayers and support of our family and our ministry. We couldn’t do what we do without your prayers and finacial support.
A lot of people have asked me if we needed anything. The only thing we need is diapers!
We have had several people send us a gift card from Walmart and other stores that sell diapers so we can go and buy them here in town. That would be awesome if you wanted to do something like that. God bless you for it.
As I close I ask you to continue to pray for The Bowen Family. We realize that time is running short. Jesus is coming soon! We all need to go tell the people about him and his saving grace.
Also please check out our schedule and if we are within driving distance of you please come see us. We’d love to see you!
One more thing, We have a new look to our website www.bobbybowen.com
Go check it out when you have time. I will have an offer on our cd’s you won’t be able to refuse.
Blessings,
Bobby Bowen & Family
So sweet! It’s just amazing how God worked that all out. I love that story.
Great story! And a mighty fine limerick 🙂
I was really impressed with his newsletter because he never writes stories like that. He admitted struggling with who said what and when, but seemed pleased with himself. My editing side of me says there is one (only one) correction and that is that labor began at 12:45 AM …not 12 midnight. (cheesy, editor’s grin). And yes, very cute limerick.