Welcoming The Change

           This time last week my husband and I had just spent our first night at home with our baby girl Honor Blue Savage. Just as everyone had warned me with their looming statements of “your life will change forever”, and “kiss goodbye to sleep”, I found those things to be true but then again I never expected anything else. It was the same way when I got married. I had enjoyed being single and dating, probably too much, and everyone wondered when I was going to get married. When I did, people kept reminding me that my life would change and that marriage was work! 

 It’s been interesting to me through both of these experiences that people issue these standard comments and say them as though you don’t expect your life to change. You see, I love change. I love challenge. My motto in life has always been that if I get really comfortable in a certain pond it’s time to get out and go to a bigger pond! It’s time to put yourself in a place or situation that will expand your life and most importantly your relationship with Christ. Both my marriage and having my baby have done just that.

What I have found to be true with this experience is that it adheres to the same pattern I have always had with experiencing things differently than most. When I got married it was not the best day of my life and then it’s all downhill from there. It was an incredible day to be certain but every day since then has been better because it’s been another day to know my precious husband. Even through very trying circumstances, family illnesses, death, loss of jobs, relocations, and so on, I still feel that every day has just been better. My wedding was just a launching point!

 As with my wedding day, having my baby was different from what people had told me. It was incredible and beautiful and amazing and all of those things but it was also like she had been here forever. My husband and I both looked at her as she was born and she opened her eyes and looked straight at us and it was like “oh, there you are”. It was like she had been here forever. It was like she had always been a part of our family but just had made her appearance. We did not cry and we were not overcome with emotions we were simply happy and at peace. Everything just seemed natural and right.

 And to the statement of whether she has changed our life…of course she has. Like I said before, I have always made choices in my life that would bring about just that…change. That is the point. My husband and I have a beautiful life and we adore each other. Our life was full before our little angel baby came along and now it is simply overflowing. Change, our life did, and that is exactly what I had hoped for and dreamed of.

 The main thing I have realized in having my little girl is that God always tops Himself. Just when you think you have experienced and understood Him in amazing ways, He goes and shows you what He is really capable of. Yes, marriage is work…but so is anything worth having and yes having a baby has changed our life but of course only for the better. After experiencing what God has blessed us with so far we can’t wait to see what’s coming next and that includes the change that comes with it.

 As Christians we can’t be afraid of change whether it be a change in our family, in our jobs, in our relationships or even our church. We can’t be afraid of things that challenge us and stretch us. We must welcome those things with open arms and receive the new things that God has to bless us with and grow upon. So with my baby in my arms and my hand in my hubby’s I say bring it on. I want to experience all that God has for us and that’s my prayer for you also.