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Things I love about pregnancyI'm in the last "stretch"--counting down until "due day".What do I love about being pregnant? -I love the anticipation of getting to know a new little person. -I love felling a little foot as it brushes along my tummy on the outside. -I love rubbing a little foot and sensing the baby is keeping the foot there just so that I can rub it. -I love sharing the movement with my husband while we are cozy in the bed early in the morning, and the rest of the kids during the day. -I love buying newborn diapers and thinking about how tiny the little bottom that fills them will be! -I love washing and folding all of the little clothes the baby will wear. -I love creating something pretty or special just for the baby, such as a quilt, etc. -I love looking at my bulbous belly in the mirror and thinking there is a whole person curled up in there. -I love the realization that Jesus will be with me during labor and birth, and the fellowship we will be sharing, unlike any other experience, like "deep calling unto deep". -I love wearing maternity clothes--gives me a chance to wear pretty, feminine and frilly things. -I love the wee hours when I am unable to sleep, and can spend time in deep study that I don't anticipate having time for after the baby is born. -I love how my husband goes out of his way to shelter and protect me, and my older sons feel the need to come to my rescue and help me up from the couch! -I love the thought of carrying a little bit of eternity within me--someone God is creating that will last beyond anything else I am a part of on this earth. -I love being helpless an dependent, and leaning on God more than normal. -I love the wait that brings about patience and submission to His will and His timing. -I love the discipline of needing help to overcome hormonal feelings by putting them under the control of the Spirit. -I love being pleasantly emotional--and my husband loves this about me! If there is anything I have learned over the years and the pregnancies, it is to remember that this is not about me, it's not about the cuteness and the attention and the celebration, it is about the little person. It is too easy to get caught up in all of the trappings that we bestow on this occasion, and just let the child be the focus. They are infants for such a short time, and this is when I feel we share them most with the world, but as they grow and mature, they become more part of us, and less part of the world. We begin to have our own life together, a sacred place that only God and the angels know about. We develop our own language of touch and gazes and sounds, and there is a sweet intimacy that we don't necessarily want to lay open to others. This is some of the reward of the whole process; the fellowship between mother and child that is more fulfilling than 200 romance novels. And it continues. Through the toddler and preschool and elementary years, there are those moments that the rest of the world melts away, and we drink in the wonder of the child. We watch him at play or at rest, and we can't help but smile. We rejoice with him, we cry with him, and in this loving we must be willing to break his heart, and ours, for the greater good. As he matures into a young person, we love him even more, although we are letting him go, and observing him with "moon eyes" when he isn't looking. Our time together becomes bitter-sweet as he begins to discuss his plans to "move on", and we encourage him, while we are feeling the pangs of missing him in our hearts. We see the world open and promising before him, and we sense that God is calling him out, and so we learn to release him and love him from afar. But, if he loves Jesus, we know that our separation is only a little bit, and that soon we will be living and flowing in an intimacy that is beyond description, not marred by the wicked evil of this earth. Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 17 of 84 } { Next Page } |
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