Dear Nahum,
Lately when people check on us, we tell them that we're doing OK. Dad's going to the office as normal and his evenings seem to fill up, too. Mom's not feeling too weepy and has some nice projects to make the days go by. Today, when we look up from our long to-do lists and realize that we're almost at the 2/3 mark of our pregnancy, we can hardly believe it.
But there's one to-do list we're avoiding when possible, and it's the "Nahum to-do list". When we don't think about that list too much we're OK. That list looks something like:
- visit gyno for glucose screening test
- meet midwife at hospital to talk about delivery preferences
- compile a list of numbers to be called in case of emergency
- plan clothes and memorabilia for Nahum
- get more info from cemeteries / funeral homes.
The first four tasks on the list, while not all fun and games, sound like fairly normal tasks for new parents. But the last one on the list reminds us again that this pregnancy is really different than what we expected.
Matthew 6 gives us a succinct to-do list for this last 1/3 of our pregnancy with you:
- Do not worry about tomorrow. (You're much better at this than we are.)
- Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
We're doing OK, and we'll always be OK, when we don't worry about tomorrow, and when we keep God's kingdom (not Nahum's kingdom or our little family's kingdom) first on our to-do list. Somehow even the Nahum to-do list will be achievable when we start with the Matthew to-do list.
As for your to-do list, it probably looks something like:
Have fun in there,
As for your to-do list, it probably looks something like:
- eat
- kick
- wiggle
- grow.
Have fun in there,
