Finally, the day had come that we would get to meet Aliyah!
It was a Sunday morning and we decided to stay home from church to prepare for the upcoming day. We packed our bags for the hospital, prayed together as we stood in Aliyah's nursery, and then headed to the hospital. It took an hour to do the necessary paperwork before being admitted into Women and Babies Hospital.
We both felt at such peace. We had contended and pressed in to the Father and prayed hundreds of times for our daughter that we were about to meet. We felt completely surrounded and uplifted by the prayers of many that day.
Before being taken to the delivery room, we requested that one more ultrasound be done on Aliyah. After all the ways the Lord had spoken to us and the visions and dreams and words of knowledge that many had received on our behalf regarding Aliyah, we were standing in faith that her skull was completely healed!!
It seemed like all time stood still as we waited for the ultrasound equipment to be wheeled into the room. Rod and I had ONE QUESTION in our minds that weighed heavy upon our hearts, yet neither one of us spoke out the words......."Would we see a HEALTHY baby
girl on the ultrasound screen?"Would we see the actual MANIFESTATION of the Lord's power come with the HEALING of our daughter? Would we see the answer to the prayers for Aliyah's healing that so many people had lifted up to the Father? Would this be a time of SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGH for our community of family and friends in seeing the healing power of Jesus bring complete RESTORATION to Aliyah's body?
And then after six months of envisioning and waiting for this very moment to arrive, it came.....but the moment did not turn out how we had prayed for and envisioned that it would. The doctor informed us in that moment that the ultrasound pictures showed that Aliyah's condition REMAINED UNCHANGED......Aliyah still had Anencephaly. 
