Life!? Sure, I still can't get over the wonder and amazement that a baby is growing inside Sarah! DJ put it best as he described the sensitivity we, husbands, need to show to our tired, pregnant wives. "They're MAKING a baby, man. It's gotta be exhausting...like us trying to climb Mt. Rainier or something..." Can it get any clearer?
Lately, I've been overwhelmed with the booming business that baby stuff is. Talk about miracle. Walk into a Babies R'Us store, and it's unfathomable that they can hold so much stuff for such little people. The storefront is misleading and the store itself seems to miraculously multiply in terms of square footage. The sheer number of strollers, cribs, high chairs!?, and ther paraphanelia is unbelievable. Whatever happened to the good old days when moms used to actually rock their babies in their arms? Or when rocking chairs themselves actually rocked instead of swaying back and forth on some oscillating contraption of a doo-hickey?
I had no idea how much "stuff" is out there, and I am surprised that I am feeling the tension already. I love this baby, and I want him/her to have everything in life. This desire, which lies at the heart of every parent, can be destructive though. For am I really loving my child by early on creating this expectation for every thing imagineable? Are there some things that he/she will be better off not having? I realize that I need to start (even now) to build a home where the eternal perspective, and the idea of stewardship and global awareness for God's cause takes effect...lest my child grows up to be an entitled, self-seeking, consumer. God help me towards that end...and of course, even as I write this, I'm looking to the links and seeing our baby registry...I really am the worst of sinners...
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