Yesterday

I had a miniature breakdown. I had to admit to my husband and myself what has been going on.

Pregnancy is not easy for everyone. While a lot of women love being pregnant some women really find it a time of struggle and low self worth.

I am the latter. I am lucky though. I have good days and bad. It is not all darkness. And I can see a happiness with bringing a new life into this world. I have great people around me and most of all a great God.

It is time to start turning over my emotion and my doubt to him. Thank you for all your prayers and support during this time.

And thank you most of all for keeping my husband sane. He needs the support as well since he is living with a crazy preggo. ;)

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Disbelief and Questions

Lately I have been wondering about a lot.

My own ability for one, what is it that I am supposed to be really focusing on? I felt for so long that it was writing, but then you go through certain periods (early pregnancy, lol) where you feel like dead weight.

Then you start even wondering why it was you felt like you had a calling or a talent, and in this case I am referencing my recent questions about God. I cannot buy that He does not want us to question, nor delve deeper into the world of sometimes fiction that has become “His religion.” When did the intellect get thrown out of Christianity for the pure acceptance of what we are told? When were Bible stories translated to children’s stories with entire chunks left out? Was it intended to be this way?

So, I am giving myself a challenge. Instead of complaining about it, oh so easy isn’t it, I am going to read and study what I don’t know or don’t understand and carry the responsibility of knowing what I believe. What an enlightening concept! I no longer want to be thrown off by accusations against my faith or hear an argument and wonder what if… I know there aren’t always exact answers but it is more about guarding my heart, strengthening my faith and learning more than anything else.

Hopefully I can share some of my journey with you, intermittent with the woes of pregnancy and day to day life I am sure!

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Emoticons: not for the truly emotional

There have been so many up and down emotions in my life recently that no online networking site, blog, or emoticon could begin to explain it. You know how sometimes you change your mind in a split second, or when anger instantly rises, or in a true act of God, completely dissipates. This is an everyday occurence in pregnancy. In some cases I believe that I should be left alone in my room with food delivery, other times all I want to do is to be out, not touching, smelling or breathing my own home.

It has occurred to me that my relationship with God is also a lot like this. There are times, maybe even I have been living in a period, where I have shut myself away. Neither wanting nor feeling like I needed to be bothered, there has been a good part of my active life that has been kept alone in a room. Not that I truly believed this was the best for me. But I think that I was not trusting God or people to understand the immense change that has happened in my outlook. Rather than being rejected on my principles I chose to stay at bay, not even asking God or fully seeking why this had happened to me. Many times we would rather just come up with our own conclusions, our own reasons for things. We might even say we’re “giving it to God” or “praying about it” but it’s all empty words.

I am really trying to change this…to allow God to work it our and actually work with him on what I should have been giving to him all along. Because my way has led to emotions that I am ill equipped to deal with- anger, resentment, all this for people not understanding what I wasn’t wiling to share. I know that I have slowly come to realize all of this, and some of it I have already admitted. I don’t think you can really move past something until it is admitted. You can move on, but not past it.

Being so emotional, having nowhere to put it, has helped me realize this. Perhaps pregnancy has more to give than illness with an end promise. Perhaps it is more of a journey to growing up than I thought.

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