And then…

I’ve been waiting for some amazing event to transpire in my life in which to write about, but sadly life has been pretty mundane for me the past week or so.  I have been really consistent, actually somewhat obsessive, about riding my bike.  I’m up to 145ish miles in 14 days of riding.  I feel really good and I’m thankful to have an “exercise” that I enjoy and actually look forward to.  I can’t wait to keep it up and hopefully someday do a race of some sort.

I did get the new Paper Route ep which I’ve been waiting for for a very long time.  Paper Routes first ep, “Paper Route”, changed me.  It was as if someone stepped into my dreams, took a good long listen and then jumped out ran as quickly as possible to a studio and recorded what they just heard.  In other words, it was the music I always wished I could make. But sadly, I can’t sing or write songs, so that makes it a bit tricky and thats where Paper Route came in.  This newest recording is a bit of a departure from the things that endeared them to me originally, but I think it will grow on me…I hope.  More on this later.

I feel like many of the people I know and even people I come in contact with are in major transitional phases of life.  I see this proven true with family members, close friends and even the band(more on this later).  I don’t think Kristin and I are yet, but I do think we are in a sort of “calm before the storm” moment.  I’m overwhelmed by the Fathers goodness to my precious wife and I over the past year.  Columbia has been a surprisingly wonderful place for us to start our marriage.  Even when I don’t feel we deserve it and do nothing to earn it, He has shown His favor to us.  We try to share this amazing Love with others the best we know how.  I do feel we are being prepared for a change, we just don’t know what it will look like.  So we are now beginning to seek wisdom and guidance as we look to the horizon, waiting as patiently as we can to see what God wants of us.

Brevity of Life

I have quite a few close friends who, in the past few months, have had children or found out they are expecting. Each couple has a different story. Some friends had children so big I wonder how the cute little mother actually held them within. Others who have finally passed into that safety zone know as the 2nd trimester after painful loses that I can’t even begin to understand. Others still have had gut-wrenching, faith-testing heartaches from pre-mature children diagnosed with no hope. Its hard and I don’t understand it, but in all of these situations our God is Sovereign. He clothes the birds so surely He will care for these.

These stories cause me step back and realize how precious having a child is in a way that hasn’t hit me before. Being a newly married man (10 months) and having a Mom who reminds me often that “Your Dad and I got pregnant the first day we tried,” pregnancy is something my wife and I try to, in a sense, avoid. Feeling that at any moment we might “accidentally” find ourselves with child. I’m realizing now how much of a gift a child is and how presumptuous it is to assume my wife and I could get pregnant whenever we want. I know that if or when the Lord chooses to bless us with a child it will be the perfect time, no matter what stage of life we might be in.

A lot of this blog has been a reaction to the heart breaking situation my friend Wade and his wife Ferris are going through. For those of you reading who don’t know the situation, please check out their blogs to see how we can pray for them.  Wade’s blog is listed below.