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So yesterday was one of the most intense days of my life. There are a few moments in my life that I know I will never forget… The day that I split my head open with a hammer, the day 911 took place, the day Jennifer and I got married, and yesterday(Just a few).
Yesterday. I was at a home birth of a beautiful baby girl. Also it is important that you know this was my first birth that was not at a hospital where I was not in the waiting room, and let me tell you it’s WAY different, like life changing different. I have been trying to put it into words, or a simple statement, and the best thing I can think of is a list of descriptors: beautiful, painful, uncomfortable, miraculous, and glorifying moment (I could keep going).
I am by no means squeamish, but you know in science class where you have to watch the videos about birth and other thing like that I would always walk out of the class room, but yesterday, changed my perception of the entire thing. There were moments where you are stunned at the shear rage of beauty that a woman can produce. I was in awe.
Jennifer and I have talked about the subject before and I have alway been supportive of doing what ever she wants. As we were talking about it she expressed beautifully her personal perspective on the event. She saw the moment as a time where she would be able to grow in pain through the birth connecting her even more to her child (sorry if your were saying something else babe).
The more I think about this birth(and I am still processing), thoughts and imagination of what it would have been like to be at Christ’s birth in a manger/cave, that would be less of a home birth and more of a yard birth.
Birth is a beautiful and messy event, but it is necessary event. After experiencing it first hand I think I have a better understand on the conversation that Jesus and Nicodemus. Something like birth is hard, painful, but necessary. It take something miraculous for it to come to completion.
I have seen lots of things and witness miracles first hand. Yesterday was a miracle, over 2000 years ago Jesus birth was a miracle, every time we chose to deny our ways and except Christ’s ways, we are birthing his life over our own life it is a miracle.
Births change lives.
Love.
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