Reality.

Ultrasounds make the pregnancy feel so much more real. You spend so much time dealing with the symptoms and preparing it doesn't really allow you the attention towards the baby itself. I get filled with tears of joy thinking in about a month I'm going to be a mommy. And my wonderful husband is going to be a daddy. How much of our lives do we spend this way? Consumed by the day to day we forget to stop and appreciate what it's all for. The interesting, the cultural, the outward drag. Instead I'd rather be able to stop and look at the picture that reminds us of the simple beauty God has blessed upon us. With all the pain in this world and the suffering and the sin it makes the good moments truely wonderful. Especially with becoming a parent it makes me cherish the rest of my family, those who are in my life and not, so much more important to me. It pains me to think of how people bicker and argue with each other over so many trivial things and it pains me that much more when it is over the important things in life. I pray from the deepest part of my heart that I am blessed with the guidence to raise my children in a strong Christian home so they may know the Lord one day and as they grow into the people they will be will see the joy the Lord gives us. And with that I pray we can strive every day to live as examples for Christ and do the Lord's work. Because that would please Him.