Godbearing Ain't Easy
Katie Kinnison Preaching
Anyone who has ever lived with a very pregnant woman or been in a delivery room knows that bringing forth life is not for the faint of heart. Feet swell. Ankles disappear. It is practically impossible to open a refrigerator without hitting yourself in the stomach, and have you ever tried sleeping with someone kicking you from the inside?
You expect to be contentedly nesting and finishing the last things on your list -- and then your water breaks when you are in the produce section of Target, and you wonder if you have time to go to the other end of the store and buy diapers.
It isn't, of course, just pregnancy or living with the pregnant that is hard. We are led and cajoled and shoved into situations and ways of being that we could not possibly have expected.
When you think about it, living and loving demand everything we've got from us.
What if we go all in? What if we give ourselves over to Love, pour ourselves out, find every way imaginable to bear Love into the world? Wouldn't that be something?
We'll ponder that.
Yours in the-tree-isn't-up-but-who-cares-Jesus-is-coming-anyway,
