No Wasted Tears
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“Mrs. Wheeler, you’re nearly there!”
“It feels like I’m dying. Baby, please, I changed my mind. Let them give me something for pain. I can’t do it again!” Destiny was crying as she looked at Sara, Willie, and Adam. They were doing everything they could to make her comfortable.
Adam moved closer to the bedside, taking her hand. “Come on, baby. Dad says all you need to do is push one more time. Little man is looking for his sister.” Adam smiled at their son, who was born five minutes earlier.
Squeezing her eyes shut, Destiny mustered up all of the strength she had left to push.
It was almost immediately after that last push that the room was filled with the soft cries of their new baby. Leaning over to kiss her brow, Adam said, “Thank you, Destiny,” as he watched the nurses clean up their babies.
“It’s a girl,” Dr. Fuller said as he walked their daughter over to the bed for both of them to see. Gently taking the baby in her arms, Destiny smiled at yet another miracle that had been created by their love for each other. Each of their babies were beautiful and the spitting image of the both of them.
Sara walked over to look at the bundle of joy in her arms. “She’s precious, Destiny, almost identical to you as a child.”
“I concur,” Willie said from the other side of the bed. “They’re both adorable babies, and I can’t wait to spoil them.”
Adam took the baby from his wife to place her beside her brother, staring down at their beautiful babies in their hospital carriers.
“She has your eyes,” Adam said softly, smiling.
“And he has yours,” she mumbled, feeling tears slipping from her eyes.
It seemed as if they had only been with them for a few minutes before the nurses came back in to take their babies to get baths. Neither one of them were ready for their babies to leave the room. Adam stood, looking at his beautiful wife. Even after twelve hours of labor, he couldn’t help but praise God for the blessings that continued to pour into their lives. It seemed that God was on a continuous journey of rewarding them for every tear they’d shed in their lives.
“Are you sad about missing the Golden Globes?” Destiny asked him as she watched the nurse leave the room with the twins.
“Baby, I’m not worried about anything tonight. I just received the best picture award, and you gave them to me. You and those babies mean more to me than any Golden Globe.” Adam leaned over, kissing his wife.
“You did it, Destiny. I’m so proud of you.” Sara moved around Adam to look at her. “Willie and I are going to the after party, but only because Adam asked us to. You know we would love to stay here with you and our grandbabies.”
“I for one voted against it, but since he is our pastor, we’re going.” Willie grabbed Sara’s hand, pulling her to the door. Turning around to wave, they blew kisses and left the room.
“We did it, baby,” Adam said as he took a seat by the bed. His smile was contagious because, before she knew it, she was laughing. “Oh, how I love our Jesus!” Destiny exclaimed, throwing her arms in the air. “I’m so happy, Adam.”
“I know, baby, you have every right to be.” He chuckled at the happiness of his wife. Placing a small kiss on her forehead, he said, “This has been our season of miracles.” He wrapped his arms around his wife as she sat in her bed.
“I think you need sleep.” He spoke softly, watching her eyelids get heavy. Trying to fight off a yawn, Destiny shook her head, not wanting to sleep yet. “The babies might be back, and I don’t want to miss them, Adam.” She fought off another yawn, as Adam adjusted her pillow.
“Your dad told the nurses to bring them back in an hour. That’ll give you a little time to sleep before their first feeding from you.”
“You promise?” she said groggily, already closing her eyes.
Pulling a chair closer to the bed, he made himself comfortable as he watched his wife close her eyes. “I promise.” Adam was sure she hadn’t heard what he said, but that was fine. He’d wake her when it was time.
“I love you, Destiny.” Adam leaned back to close his eyes. Just as he was about to get in his real sleep zone, he felt the vibration of his phone. Looking at the screen, he saw Richard’s number. “Hey, man, what’s up?” Adam listened as Richard asked about Destiny and the babies. After telling him that the mom and the babies were fine, Richard asked if he had awakened him.
“Not yet, but I was just about to before the nurses bring the twins back. Why?”
Adam heard Tina in the background yelling something, but he couldn’t understand her. There was a lot of noise.
“Pastor, I had to call because you just gave birth again.”
“Again? What do you mean?”
“Your movie, No Wasted Tears, just won best short film! Congratulations!”
“Oh my God, what did you say?” Adam couldn’t contain the excitement in his voice.
“What is it, baby?” he heard Destiny ask.
Turning to look at her he said, “Baby, our movie just won best short film!”
Destiny almost jumped out of the bed. She was screaming so loud that the nurses ran into the room. Seeing the both of them huddle together on the bed crying, they immediately became concerned about their patient.
“Is everything okay, Pastor Wheeler? Mrs. Wheeler, are you in pain? If you are, we can give you something so you won’t have to cry,” one nurse said as she was looking at the IV attached to her arm.
Smiling, Destiny looked at the nurse. “There’s nothing wrong. We just found out that our movie won a Golden Globe for best short film. So you see these tears running down my face?” Destiny pointed to them. “They’re not wasted. Praise the Lord! No wasted tears in God!”
Table of Contents
No Wasted Tears
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Epilogue