Parenting

Well, I said I was going to blog about this new adventure of ours - parenting! Well, she's 5 months old already, and it hasn't happened. Anyone who really expected it probably doesn't have kids, haha! In typical fashion for us, it has been an adventure. Between the sleep deprivation, the scariness of being a brand new parent, and some strange and rare post partum complications, the last 5 months have been, well, interesting. Was it worth it? I answer with almost every other parent out there, YES! Garn and I have always enjoyed a very good marriage, and I love him dearly. But does any love compare to the love between a parent and a child? I think I speak for both of us when I say there's nothing like it. We both are so completely, totally in love with this darling baby girl it's ridiculous. 

For me, God has used the experience to teach me about how much he loves us, his children. It's unfathomable, that he loves us even so much more than we love our baby. Humbling, for sure. I ask him, the wisest parent of all, for a touch of his wisdom to parent my own sweet one, as the task is so daunting sometimes. How do I teach her how valuable she is in this society? How much we love her and want the best for her in the times she disagrees? How important it is to put God first? So many things to tell her. So many influences on her life as she grows up. As thrilled as I am with every new development she makes, every new skill she masters, part of me regrets the speeding by of time. Right now, I can (mostly) protect her. She's mine, safe in my arms, with me all the time, not exposed to very many lies of the devil. As she grows up, that will change. She will hear that she's worthless, ugly, and a hundred other things that are not true. I only hope we are blessed with the wisdom to give her a strong enough foundation to fight back, to know she's everything to us and to the God who died for her, that she is "fearfully and wonderfully made", beautiful beyond words, and strong enough to fight in Him. She is a princess, not in the sense of being spoiled with frivolous things, but in the sense of being a daughter of the King. But for now, she's just 5 months. I try my best to show her as I snuggle her close, read her stories and cheer her on as she grows and learns.