A Time for Everything

What a journey these past 10.5 weeks have been!!!  On August 14, 2012, we welcomed our precious firstborn son Samuel Caleb Treesh into the world. As you can see, the picture to the left is me holding him when he was just a few hours old. Now looking at that picture I can't believe he is already 10 weeks old and cooing and smiling at me. Not to mention at least 14 lbs!!! WHEW we have a cute chunky baby on our hands.  Though this has been a joyous time for us and our whole family, it has also been one of hardship.  Coming into parenthood, I had so many expectations like breastfeeding would be easy, my baby will be the best sleeper and sleep all the time, that I would be able to just set him down and he would fall right asleep and that now that I'm not pregnant I can eat what I want! Oh how all of those expectations blew up in my face and even more crumbled to the ground.  

As the title of this blog suggests, there is a time and a season for everything. I love that the Hebrew word for season literally means an appointed time. It just shows that God specifically appoints or arranges for certain seasons to happen at just the right moment. Not too late and not too soon. During this season, I have questioned God...where are you? Do you hear me? Do you care about my pain? Are you ever going to answer my prayers? Why did you make it this hard? Are you sure I was ready to be a mom? When will Aaron and I be the same again? I've also dealt with resentment, anger, frustration, and doubt toward God.  But as I have journeyed through this deep water and valley, along the way God has proven over and over again HIS LAVISH GRACE, FAITHFULNESS, and that He is EL-ROI - the God who SEES. He has seen me and been with me every step of the way even when I don't feel him. He has never left my side. 

The past couple of days I have been meditating on Ecclesiastes 3:1-15. I am thankful that there is a season for everything, and though there are so many things I love about this season - CALEB - I long for the day when this season will pass, and a time of rejoicing and dancing will come!  

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-15

1There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven 2A time to give birth and a time to die;          A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. 3A time to kill and a time to heal;          A time to tear down and a time to build up. 4A time to weep and a time to laugh;          A time to mourn and a time to dance. 5A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;          A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. 6A time to search and a time to give up as lost;          A time to keep and a time to throw away. 7A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;          A time to be silent and a time to speak. 8A time to love and a time to hate;          A time for war and a time for peace.       9What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.        11He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.       12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; 13moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God. 14I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. 15That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.