So, Kelly and I have been a bit quiet as of late. There are few reasons for that, but the main reason is that we were in the midst of a couple possibilities and with waiting for those possibilities to materialize we really had nothing to post about that was tangible.
Yesterday was my birthday and I had a really great day. A really, really great day. I think that I would have had a great day even if it was not my birthday. Why is that? you might ask. Well, you know how Kelly and I are there is a story in it!
I remember a story from when I was a kid written by Aesop. The Crow and the pitcher is as follows:
"A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it. He tried, and he tried, but at last had to give up in despair. Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into
the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. At last, at last, he saw the water mount up near him, and after casting in a few more pebbles he was able to quench his thirst and save his life."
The story really speaks to how I came to having a great day. In my life I was feeling like the parched Crow and I really needed that water. As in the story, little by little the water was brought up from the bottom of the pitcher, I have had pebbles or joys in this case that have added up to the greater whole of a really great day. I have been spending more time in the word as late and that in it self can bring about a positive shift in spirit. Also, I recently came out of a songwriting funk that I had been in since last fall and I have been reclaiming somethings that I had allowed others to take control of in my life.
These things along with what has been happening in the adopting process for Kelly and I have lead to the perfect storm of joy in my life. I feel more at ease, more in self control and for that matter more human. Kelly and I were playing a waiting game of sorts. When looking at adopting as we are the decision is not ours as to the placement. The decision rests with the birth mother as to whom she will place with. Now, after a season of waiting, Kelly and I have been picked.
Our birth mother, Kristin, is due in November and, as yet we are not aware the sex of the baby. That will be a future post (A very near future post!).
I know that finding out I am going to be a dad in a few short month is a pretty large pebble to be tossed in my pitcher; however I still want to encourage all of you that all that it takes to experience that kind of progressive joy is to reach out and take hold of the pebbles that are being given freely from the King of all pebbles, Jesus. I have!
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" Matthew 7:7
