Interconnected-ness

Earlier this week, I pulled out my daughter's birth certificate and was reminded of several connections that my family has, including some discovered with my daughter's birth.

My grandparents, Baxter and Wanda Phillips, were students at Wake Forest College and Southeastern Seminary shortly after the seminary was founded. My grandfather was in one of the first few graduating classes of the seminary. One connection: fifty years later, his grandson-in-law and granddaughter (briefly) are students of the same school!

Because my grandparents lived here in Wake Forest, my father was born in Raleigh. After Georgia was born at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, we learned that Rex Hospital is the same hospital were my dad was born! We thought that is surely must have been in a different location, but while we were still in the hospital, Nathan found a plaque that dated the current location of the hospital to before my dad was born. Another connection--my dad and my daughter were born in the same hospital.

Another unique point--my maternal grandfather's name was Rex (no, the hospital was not named after him).

One last bit of interconnection (stay with me!): my sister-in-law, Michelle's (married to my brother Seth) mother, Linda, went to high school with my aunt Sarah. Aunt Sarah and her husband Chris are tracing our family roots, and it was conversations with them that brought up the fact that Dad and Georgia were born in the same hospital. There is probably no place for that info on a genealogical chart, but doesn't it make for an interesting story?

**Update: My mom reminded me that her and Dad's anniversary is the same as Linda and Johnny Williams, my sister-in-law Michelle's parents. My parents' anniversary is also just one week before my in-laws' anniversary, which makes it easy to remember both!

Indeed, the world is getting smaller, we are all connected, and it is evident that the Lord of universe has a mighty plan in place to draw people together, to marriages and families, jobs and schools. How amazing!