our shower isn't until the first week of June, but we felt like March was a good time to just make our registry (for whatever reason... : ).
though i didn't document our first outing (oopsy!), I got some glimpses to document our second stop later that week.
what an encounter with God registering was for me.
here's the thing...
being pregnant [and those of you that have been with child can probably testify], i've come to experience that almost all other women [especially] enjoy sharing their advice on what "to for sure do" and "what to for sure not do" all throughout your pregnancy term. as I found in being in a relationship, being engaged, and being newly married... it is IMPOSSIBLE to apply all of the advice that people so love to share throughout that phase as well - since it comes from so many different sources, obviously several conflicts are inevitable and do happen. so all advice isn't possible to apply!
all of what was going to be "best" for our little man was absolutely happening right now in my womb.
though we have to run around and get our list of "stuff", my mind kept wandering back to how he was doing right now. right now, where he is, he is:
warm enough
cool enough
fed enough
comfortable enough
relieving himself enough
safe enough
sleeping enough
awake enough
and on, and on, and on...
God created my womb to be the PERFECT environment for my tiny son, and my body simply CAME with that womb. it's kind of like breathing - even if I am not thinking about making it happen even though it is SO important, it is still happening, because God created my body that way. it just HAPPENS. and all I am left to do is stand by in awe, and become more and more amazed that what had once achieved the size of a tiny olive, and is now the size of a head of cabbage [ha...] is every bit of a human at each stage, breathing, functioning, alive...
incredible.
registering was fun, and i look forward to some of the "stuff" because, you know, it's fun, but the personal and DEEP revelation of how capable and equipped God is makes me ever more content and CONFIDANT in God as the Creator of Life and the perfect Teacher for me as a mother, since He's got this down pat. SUCH peace in Him, friends...
"in God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to Your name forever." -psalms 44.8