The baby has already outgrown his sit up-chair. When Aunt Jen came and visited him last month, she decided that he would love a sit-up chair. I hadn't even heard of it, so when the package arrived, I was interested to see it. He loved it! Having the freedom to sit on his own agreed with him. Two weeks later, I was at the doctor's office and she asked me if I had put him in the exersaucer.
"Um, no. He's been in a sit-up chair."
"He's trying to stand quite a bit. He will love being able to stand in the exersaucer."
With that, he has moved into the exersaucer, which he loves just as much (which means, he loves it until he gets bored and wants to be held).
Life is temporary. Having a kid has made me much more aware of how short the days are. We get settled into a routine and then everything changes. I am realizing it's just a microcosm of life.
We are going through a ridiculously hard season at our church. People are hurting in ways I can't even imagine. Going around the table for prayer requests at Bible study reminded me that everyone has their struggles, but it seems like all of our people have huge struggles right now. I look at the national church scene and it doesn't seem better. Mega church leaders falling left and right and the climate toward the church in America becoming more and more frosty. I begin to be overwhelmed with the burden and feel I need to do more to help or to stop it.
This life is temporary. The reason we do not lose heart is not because it is going to be easy, but because it's short and the struggles we go through are creating something in us and for us that is far better. My firstborn instinct is to try to take away the suffering, but I can rest assured that God is using it.
Someday soon, I will graduate from my sit-up chair. I will stand before my Heavenly Father and say "Was that it? Is my time over?" and I believe He will reply with a smile and open arms "Yes, it's over. Come home, my child."
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