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Twelve years ago today I labored long and wondered what I’d done to myself.

Walking into the hospital with freckles and pig tails and an over due boy baby I told the kind lady at registration that I was checking in for delivery. I also told her that I was nervous.

She smiled and told me I looked like Heidi.

It took all day and all night for that blonde little boy to emerge.

After all was said and done they eased me into a wheelchair and handed me a little burrito of a boy all swaddled sweet into a hospital blanket.

They handed a baby a baby and I beamed and I can still feel the thrill of it.

Today, as I sit and type and ponder and wonder here with you, my thoughts are lingering on labor.

I’m picturing that fully housed belly, stretched thin to capacity, pregnant with all kinds of possibility, as I consider my current station in life.

I feel like the spirit realm right about now is so full of brimming life and creativity and assignments, that beautiful work is about to be birthed.

And this is good, and it’s different than in previous seasons.

You see, years ago as my husband really began to live out his calling in ministry, I began to diminish.

He stood up and I sat down. It’s not because anyone said it had to be that way, it just was that way, so I found a seat in the back and only occasionally offered up anything and so my ministry muscle began to atrophy a tad.

I’m currently working on bringing it back to full function again, and as I do so I feel like a type of labor is underway.

There’s some pain, some progress, some standstills, some discomfort, some release – but something is coming. I’m not intentionally being vague. I don’t even myself know what it is yet exactly. I do know that while it won’t be for my glory or benefit, I’ll certainly feel fulfilled while doing it.

This morning on my walk, I thought about all these types of things and I beckoned the Spirit and asked Him what I was to do.

And the thought came to mind that just as a pregnant lady begins to act, and behave, and nest, and prepare, and think, and present herself like a mother – even before her baby is born – I am to act, and behave, and nest, and prepare, and think, and present myself like the creative woman I want to be.

Because it’s forming and growing and beginning to bulge, and while I have no clue what it looks like, a birth is about to take place.

I feel a bit like the Heidi I was twelve years ago, and I’ll take it.

Lord, fill me with faith, and fine-tune the vision, and bring to fruition the good things you have in the works. Position me, and steady me, and brace me for the beautiful things and assignments that will see the light of day soon. Yes and amen.

This Post Has 8 Comments

  1. Jan Thompson

    Katie, I love this ring of the bell ! It leaves me with the feeling of excitement for you and yours. It leaves me knowing there is “change and newness” in the air about you and I love it !!!

  2. Jenniffer Trent

    Isn’t it exciting? God doesn’t waste a second of our lives growing and teaching us. Always mov My us forward to his next best for our lives!

  3. Leslie

    Amen! Such a beautiful way to describe it. God bless your labor and birth. Seeing it that way for me too now. Thank you for NOT keeping it to yourself…. yeah you can’t hide pregnancy lol.

  4. Kate

    Thank you for reading! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! 🙂

  5. Kate

    Yes!Thank you for stopping in to read! Grateful!

  6. Kate

    Thank you MawMaw!!! You bless me! I sure do love ya! 🙂

  7. Stephanie

    Wow! What a blessing to read today….on my birthday…on the birthday of our twins! Kate…thank you for sharing. I can’t wait to witness this “birth”. Praying for you sweet friend….

  8. Kate

    How cool is that!? So many birthdays!! What a day to celebrate! Thank you for your kind encouragement Stephanie! Grateful for you! Sending hugs!

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