Ezekiel has arrived!

Want to make sure the word gets out along with some much anticipated pictures!  Ezekiel is finally here.  We're soaking up the time together and enjoying God's precious gift!

Still waiting

I don't really know how far along I am.  It could be anywhere from 38 weeks and 5 days, 39 weeks and 5 days, or overdue.  So today was the Dr's appointment.  Everything looks good and healthy.  He's growing just fine and seems to be enjoying the space that he's claimed within me.  She stripped my membranes and Austin and I have already done some time walking the steep inclines that surround our apartment.  But I'm doing my best to fight the urge to "fit it into the formula."  Labor started with both Elli and Elias within hours of having my membranes stripped. 

So, in efforts to stay encouraged, I went over to my friend's blog.  This is what I'm "preaching" to myself:

But more of my reasons (why I wait) are tied to what I believe to be true of God and myself.  In choosing to wait, I am believing that God is intimately involved in this child's formation and the timing of his birth (convenient or not).  I am believing that God has created my body well.  I am believing that God is incomprehensibly good and that He does not withhold good from His children (even if discomfort is involved).  I am believing that one of my most serious problems as a member of the human race is my propensity to chase after my own comfort apart from God.  That's ultimately what sin is, right?  I am believing that hope and perseverance are cultivated in times of waiting and feeling out of control.  And I am believing that God desires to meet me intimately in this unique place of waiting and longing for what is to come.  It's about much of the Gospel, really.

Hoping to post baby pictures soon!  Until then, believing God!

Today's thought

"It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator. . . It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel. . . We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, but the common round, the trivial task.  The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God."  Oswald Chambers "My Utmost for His Highest"

I'm stuck in the waiting game.  Waiting for baby E's arrival.  For many reasons, it is easy to feel like I'm stuck in the trivial and the common.  Oh that my soul life would persevere, uncrushed, ever looking to Jesus!