I always am amazed by what God chooses to teach me… they always fall in a theme. This probably has more to do with my stubbornness in learning lessons, but either way, theme’s they are.

Waiting seems to be the consistent theme of my life currently. Pregnant with 7 months to go in this journey (oh, if you haven’t heard, Eric and I are expecting a baby February 1…CRAZY!)….The waiting seems like forever. 7 weeks and 3 days… 7 weeks and 4 days… 7 weeks and 5 days… 8 weeks and 1 day.

Each day slowly rolls along. My belly slowly growing. My symptoms slowly changing. But, in all of it, I am learning in the waiting.

Last week at church, we sang an old song, but a good one nonetheless – everlasting God by Chris Tomlin.

One of my favorite lines says, “Our God, You reign forever. Our hope, Our strong deliverer,” then it goes into the chorus to say, “You are the everlasting God. You do not fait; You don’t grow weary.”

I had a sudden revelation that I will be waiting for the REST OF MY LIFE. I will wait for 7 more months for this baby, Lord willing. After the baby is born, I will wait for it to exit the 3 months of little sleep. Then we will venture into the “teething/eating solid foods/older baby stuff,” then comes crawling and waiting for them to walk, then walking and running, then hoping and praying for them to quickly leave the terrible two’s and three’s, etc. etc. etc….

My waiting will never end. And with that, I need to stop focusing on the waiting of the whole aspect and enjoy the present.

Enjoy that my little belly has started to stick out and my pants don’t fit.

Enjoy the appointment with my Doctor and Eric seeing my baby’s heartbeat for the first time.

Celebrating with my best friend (and SO many others) who is also pregnant.

The opportunity to sleep and take naps.

Date nights with my husband uninterrupted.

I can go on and on.

All that to say, I could wait the rest of my life to have a baby. There is a possiblity that I will not give birth beginning of 2015, but, like the song says, God reigns forever…he is our hope (not being a mother), he is always at work and always faithful.

That is something to be thankful for in itself. We have a God is is sovereign enough and powerful enough to supply all of our needs. He can provide through the toughest of times (morning sickness, achy body, tired-eyes, hurt, pain, etc.) and his is still good regardless.

I am praying for this baby daily, and hope that everyone will pray the same with me. Yes, I hope I will have a healthy baby (though I will and do love this baby no matter what), but I want to pray more that this pregnancy and this baby’s life will bring God glory – no matter how long I have to wait to see his/her face.

That’s all for now.

…to be continued…