Reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
Rhesymau i gredu ym mhŵer y Beibl
‘My wife had three miscarriages before our first little boy arrived. In the aftermath of the third miscarriage, she got pregnant. I was anxious about the pregnancy not going to plan. I was hyper-sensitive, hyper-alert. I couldn’t envisage a future in which we would have a baby. I thought that was how it would always be.
‘I became a controlaholic. There were many parts of my life that I could control, but not this. I felt vulnerable and shocked, shocked at myself, at what was beneath the surface. I realised that life is a gift, not a right.
‘I was trying to control what I could: what my wife was eating, panicking if the baby moved. Most days there was a cloud of anxiety that settled on my mind that would not go away. It brought tensions in our marriage.
‘Psalm 127 became a very good friend in that period. It says, “Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labour in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain…Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward.”
‘That just reminded me of the bigger picture. I saw that a child’s life was totally a gift from God and can’t be manufactured or manipulated. It just stabilised me, I would say.
‘Toby is now three. His brother, Theo, is one. They fill our lives with joy. They’re a constant reminder of the gift to us and that God’s goodness has been expressed in that very tangible and concrete way. Toby was a gift to us at a time of longing and agony and prayer.
‘That helps us to hold Toby and Theo with a great sense of deep care and gratefulness and yet open-handedness as a gift from God. We don’t own them.’
‘Collodd fy ngwraig dri baban yn y groth cyn i’n bachgen bach cyntaf gyrraedd. Yn dilyn y trydydd tro, fe feichiogodd. Roeddwn yn bryderus nad oedd y beichiogrwydd yn mynd fel y dylai. Roeddwn yn or-ofalus, yn rhy wyliadwrus. Ni allwn ragweld dyfodol lle byddem yn cael babi. Roeddwn i'n meddwl mai dyma sut y byddai bob amser.
‘Deuthum yn ‘controlaholig’. Roedd yna lawer o rannau o fy mywyd y gallwn eu rheoli, ond nid hyn. Roeddwn i'n teimlo'n fregus ac mewn sioc, mewn sioc gyda fy hun, gyda’r hyn oedd o dan yr wyneb. Sylweddolais mai rhodd yw bywyd, nid hawl.
‘Roeddwn i'n ceisio rheoli'r hyn a allwn: beth oedd fy ngwraig yn ei fwyta, yn panicio pe bai'r babi yn symud. Bron yn ddyddiol roedd cwmwl o bryder a setlodd ar fy meddwl na fyddai’n diflannu. Daeth â thensiynau i’n priodas.
‘Daeth Salm 127 yn ffrind da iawn yn y cyfnod hwnnw. Mae'n dweud, “Os ydy'r ARGLWYDD ddim yn adeiladu'r tŷ, mae'r adeiladwyr yn gweithio'n galed i ddim pwrpas. Os ydy'r ARGLWYDD ddim yn amddiffyn dinas, mae'r gwyliwr yn cadw'n effro i ddim byd… Ac ie, yr ARGLWYDD sy'n rhoi meibion i bobl; gwobr ganddo fe ydy ffrwyth y groth.”
‘Fe wnaeth hynny fy atgoffa o'r darlun ehangach. Gwelais fod bywyd plentyn yn rhodd gan Dduw yn llwyr ac na ellir ei gynhyrchu na'i lawdrin. Fe wnaeth yn syml fy sefydlogi, buaswn yn dweud.
‘Mae Toby bellach yn dair. Mae ei frawd, Theo, yn un. Maen nhw'n llenwi ein bywydau â llawenydd. Maen nhw'n atgoffawyr cyson o'r rhodd i ni a bod daioni Duw wedi'i fynegi yn y ffordd bendant a real honno. Roedd Toby yn rhodd i ni ar adeg o ddyhead ac ing a gweddi.
‘Mae hynny'n ein helpu i ddal Toby a Theo gydag ymdeimlad mawr o ofal a diolchgarwch dwfn ac eto llaw-agored yn rhodd gan Dduw. Dydyn ni ddim yn berchen arnynt.’
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