For Christmas, my sister-in-law gave Nathan and I a book called Timouts with God, Meditations for Parents by Rochelle Melander and Harold Eppley. Nathan and I waited until Milo was actually born to begin the meditations. One we read the other night really struck a cord with me. Here is the last paragraph of the entry titled Faith Journey.
"Parenting is also a faith journey. Becoming a parent is like choosing a scenic route over the expressway-it usually takes longer to get where you're going. Yet if you pay attention, you will discover wonders you would have never known existed had you taken the faster route. Take time to enjoy the blessings along the road of parenting. And rest assured that when the journey is done, your Navigator will lead you safely home."
The scenic route. Boy do I feel like that is the road we have been on for years now! Nathan and I have always enjoy the scenic route in driving. We enjoy seeing farms, driving through quaint little towns, taking the curvy roads around the mountains. But that paragraph was such a great reminder of what a positive thing the scenic route of life can be. We certainly were not on the expressway in conceiving our son... but we sure did experience some wonderful moments along the way. And while the end of that journey... Milo... is just the beginning of another one... Raising Milo, I realize that taking the scenic route isn't a bad thing.
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