Emphasis Preaching Journal

Concern, excitement, awe, wonder, relief, joy. Those are some of the feelings I experienced at those sacred moments when my children were born. In those days it was a relatively new privilege granted to fathers to allow them inside the delivery room of the hospital. My wife and I had attended classes at the hospital for parents to learn about the birth process. So, when the time arrived, I did have some assigned tasks such as coaching and timing my wife's breathing during the final stages of labor. Once we were in the delivery room, my chief tasks were support and observation.