One of my favorite bloggers - Danielle Bean writes...
Over the years, I've done my fair share of staring in disbelief at tiny pink lines in the bathroom. Once, a few years ago, when I told a friend of a new and unplanned pregnancy and expressed to her my ambivalent feelings, her response to me was a simple, joyful exclamation:
"God must love you so much!"
Her words startled me. Not only because most people's reactions to my latest news had been somewhat less than joyful, but also because of how true I knew those words were, deep down inside, in spite of my doubts and fears.
When God gives us babies, planned or unplanned, He gives us innumerable physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges. But He also gives us a glimpse of Himself. It's God's face we see in a helpless baby's smile. It's God's voice we hear in their needy cries, and it's God's enormous love we feel wrapped around us when we nurture them within us, when we hold their infant bodies, when we accept them as He sends them, whether it was part of "our plan" or not.
This comes from an article she wrote over at Inside Catholic. I couldn't agree more. Often I am amazed by people's lack of joy at the good news of a new life. Even when I have felt overwhelmed and nervous about a pregnancy. The thought of a completely original and totally unique new little person made my fears fade and anticipation replaced my anxiety. We as a culture tend to focus so much on "ME" and how everything effects ME that we seem to miss the enormous awe inspiring beauty of a baby - another person - not ME - living in ME! WOW!! Just thinking of it gives me goosebumps!!!
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