In the publication called “newborn2five,” March 2013, parents are introducing  their 2012’s babies. The name of the baby is given, the date of birth, the weight and there is also a brief message.

“We loved you even before we met you. You made our fmily whole – a beautiful blessing. Lots of love, Mum and Dad.” That is one of the messages.

When I read “We loved you even before we met you,” I remembered more things that happened “before”.

In the Bible, in the book of Jeremiah, we are reading about the call of the prophet.

In Jeremiah 1:5 the Lord does not only say to Jeremiah, ‘”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,…'” but he says also ‘”before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'”

And this is what Paul writes in the Bible to the saints in Ephesus. Right at the beginning of the letter he writes “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.”

“Earthly Dad’s love their babies before they are born and I am glad that my heavenly Father chose me before the creation of the world.