The Birthing Process

When a baby is born, it's a very stressful experience. Being removed from the pod we've been living in for 9 months, pushed through a very small canal and then emerging into a whole new world, is, perhaps, a memory too intense to remember, even if we could.

Once we've endured all of that, we are then dangled upside down by a stranger, poked with needles... The process of being born and getting ready to be sent home to where our life really begins is (we assume) a very intense experience!

I can imagine a baby thinking 'man, this is horrible, why was I even born!?' Obviously, they wouldn't yet have the ability to conceptualize that kind of thing but, you can imagine.

Sadly, the feeling of 'why was I even born' is a feeling many live with well beyond the process of being born. Life can be hard. It can be cruel. It can make you wish you never existed in the first place.

But what if this entire eighty (or so) years on this earth was just the birthing process? That is exactly what the Bible says it is!

We are eternal beings. As Christians, we know this, yet we still live our lives as though we don't. We have hardships and say things like "life has been hard" when the reality is, we've barely begun living! We're just in the birthing process!

I've been sick most of my life. I've suffered in ways most couldn't even imagine and I spent many years being very angry and depressed about it. I didn't yet realize I was just in the birthing process. Mine came with many complications but I'm being prepared to be taken home where my real life will begin. I'm just a baby and have no idea how amazing life will be beyond this painful yet, short period in my eternity and I'm so excited about that!

In the meantime, I'm learning to focus on the amazing blessings in my life. My beautiful daughter, amazing family and friends, and music. I still get down when things are bad but I just remind myself that this is so temporary compared to the life I have waiting.

I remind myself to have faith because I get to go home soon!