My sister, who's pregnant with her second child and due in March, was told a few days ago that the baby was not only far too small, but the head was too small even for that, and - there's more - that the amount of fluid around the baby was far too little.

I dunno if you can imagine the gut-wrenching nausea that one feels at such news - and I'm only the uncle. It still makes me want to cry.

But thank God for mistakes (when the alternative is even worse). Whoever did the measuring got almost everything wrong. Turns out that the baby's fluid is fine, and that its size is within the normal range, albeit right on the lower end.

Whew. And Catherine said that almost the whole church was praying for them. Lovely, to live in such a community.