June 22, 2011

• The things people say... (when your pregnant)

  I have a confession. 

  I am terrible at pregnancy.  Nothing life threatening.  Just really uncomfortable.  

  To make matters worse, I'm short.  Short pregnant people look big.  As in having a nurse anesthetist say to me just before delivering my last baby, "You are the biggest pregnant woman I have ever seen and I've seen a lot of pregnant women.  Bless your heart."  Cause if you add "bless your heart" at the end it makes it okay, right?

  I can’t help but want to wear a t-shirt that says, yes, all these children are mine, yes, I am pregnant, no it is just one baby, but yes, I am short and big, yes, my husband and I know what causes this, and yes, we have satellite tv. 

  I'm just kidding.  Mostly. 

  There is an even darker side of this whole pregnancy thing and it is something I heard a minister's wife (on the radio a long time ago) call the "spirit of hate" for the unborn child. We see that spirit of hate demonstrated in the killing of the unborn.  Heartbreaking.  It is often directed toward expectant mothers, as well.  When someone reacts negatively to a pregnancy announcement or the site of a blossoming belly.  "Oh Lord.  Like they need another one"  and other unkind words.  We speak curses over moms and the unborn.  Despising the very life that God has blessed her with.  Now that is a scary thought.  Cursing God's blessing. 

  This same minister's wife (I really wish I remembered her name) encouraged the blessing of the unborn.  When you see an expectant mother, you proclaim blessing over her and her unborn child.  You speak blessing over God's handiwork.  Never curse.  Never doubt.  Never question.  God is knitting a miracle in that womb. 

  

  "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them."  Ps. 139:13-16

  "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!" Deut. 30:19

  Let's choose life.  Let's choose blessing for the unborn and their moms.

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