The "Just Wait" post that encouraged my heart!

Since being pregnant I am asked regularly "How are you" or "How are you feeling".  If your not pregnant and reading this you are probably thinking "So what? People are caring about you" and if you've had kids or your pregnant then you probably know where I'm headed with this...

Most people probably want to hear "Great! We are so excited for the baby!" or "I"m fine thanks for asking" as a response. However, I'm just not wired that way. I tend to tell people EXACTLY how I am feeling. From the nausea and tiredness to the upset stomachs. (By the time they start to look disgusted I realize I've said too much and should have said "fine".)

From almost all mothers who are farther along in this stage of life than I am, the response I get is "Just you wait". (Sadly, I'm sure I've said that to people before, although I will try to never say it again.)

What Horrible Words!

They are ominous, discouraging, make you fear the future, kind of words.

To me those words mean, "suck it up, things are just going to get worse.There is no end in sight, your going to feel like this forever, or at least for the next 18 years."

I just read an article from the gospel coalition. The lady who is writing felt exactly how I do about "Just wait". She was pregnant with 3 little ones and discouraged because of some parenting struggles. I really encourage you to read THIS if you find yourself down in the dumps, or worrying about the future or really just in a trial right now.

The only thing that I would add to her article is to remember Matthew 25-36.

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."