Wednesday's Child

When growing up I was informed that I was born on a Wednesday and when reading this poem growing up it says that Wednesday’s Child is full of Woe…

An Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe once spoke about a group of old women in 1570s Suffox who would ‘tell what luck euerie one should haue by the day of the weeke he was borne on’

..so, on the surface, ‘Wednesday’s child is full of woe’ may mean exactly what it sounds like – that, typically, babies born on Wednesday may tend to be a little moodier.

https://www.scribd.com/document/827761431/Wednesday-s-Child-is-Full-of-Woe-Article

I grew up then regretting I was born on a Wednesday and secretly wished I had been born on another day instead.  Probably did not help that my mother always told me I ‘wore my heart on my sleeve’ as well!

When I then became a mum my two daughters were not given a choice really – it came down to when it actually suited the doctor as I was induced so they were both born on a Thursday (If my memory serves me correctly).

I think that a ‘child has far to go’ is better than a ‘child full of woe’. Still regardless of silly nursery rhymes the word of God says…

He knitted you together before you came into this world

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvellous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Psalms 139:14-15

He wrote your destiny in the palm of his hands

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalms 139:16

He made you stand out

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased

Galatians 1:15

He has already devised a plan for your life

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11

I’m thinking I would rather take my que from the above scriptures on why I’m here and what I should be doing and not some silly saying.  But the enemy loves to cultivate a negative in our thinking at every opportunity.  Even if it is something as silly as using a nursery rhyme.

Moses’ life covered 120 years but is rooted in the faith of Amram and Jochebed,

his parents, whom not much is known. His parents were willing to have the faith

to believe in God having something unique for their son and chose to see past the chaos that surrounded them at the time being inflicted by the Egyptians (it was rather radical of them going against the law of the land).

I want to honour my parents, Ken and Elizabeth, for the life of faith they were walking in, especially in the year I was born. In those faith steps that they chose many years ago, it has enabled me to not only survive and be here but to decide to go on and be an encouragement to others, to help build on more amazing transformations of others” lives around me.

My parents had been on an aboriginal mission station called “Jigalong” (see the

extract from Trove – National Library of Australia) in the far north of Western

Australia for two years before being born (I was born 1962). As my Mum was

struggling in her health being pregnant, they were required to call in the flying

doctor service several times to stabilise her (she was encouraged to fly back to

Sydney to give birth to me).

Extract from ‘Door of Hope’ by Kim Stanfield

My Heavenly Father has done the supernatural over my life, time and time again, to keep me here doing the things laid down by Him from the beginning of time.

·       By having medical intervention to be born

·       In 2005, not allowing the enemy to have upper hand with suicidal thoughts

·       Opening a door in 2008 to minister Gods word in a country that was experiencing civil war and bringing me home again in one piece

·       Enabling me to stand in His strength in 2011-2012 when praying alongside my husband when he was going through Cancer and Chemo treatments

·       Enabling me to trust Him in the process in 2021 when the National Financial Crimes accused us of stealing funds when it was someone else tampering with our technology

I have come to realise over the years that ‘Wednesday’s Child’ (also seems to be the source of Polish środa, Russian sreda "Wednesday," literally "middle.") is the middle of the week and I too am also a ‘middle’ sister so all in all I believe it is perfect really!

I am loved, supported and believe that because I am ‘in the middle’ I can bring some balance to not only my family but those I interact with around me each day.

‘…what does the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?’ – Micah 6:8 KJV

Yes, we have just passed the middle of this year 2025 and I will choose to continue doing what the scripture above says… and know by offering up each new day, He will use me to be a blessing to others along the way.

¹³ Once when some mothers^[a] were bringing their children to Jesus to bless them, the disciples shooed them away, telling them not to bother him.

¹⁴ But when Jesus saw what was happening, he was very much displeased with his disciples and said to them, “Let the children come to me, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they. Don’t send them away! ¹⁵ I tell you as seriously as I know how that anyone who refuses to come to God as a little child will never be allowed into his Kingdom.”

¹⁶ Then he took the children into his arms and placed his hands on their heads, and he blessed them. – Mark 10:13-16 TLB