Life, and the stages of labor are similar. Ups and downs, peaks and valleys, highs and lows. I’m entrenched in birth stories right now, it’s everywhere I turn, and I love it to the fullest. I have cried and rejoiced over all that goes right and wrong in laboring thru life. My heart tends to pound with fear and faith in the same beat.
We have a family texting thread that would make grown men cry; yet all the women thrive over the chaos of the thread. We go from outfit to body functions in the span of one text, and never miss a beat.
Recently though, we have had two babies born within this thread of women. Can I just explain the detail of instruction we can give to a laboring mama thru text messages from across the United States of America. As I was fully engaged in the most recent birth via text, I began to understand that laboring and life should use all the same phrases throughout the different stages.
I have had some anxiety / stress as of late, and I could hear the birthing coaches giving instructions that can totally apply to me in my anxious state.
Take one contraction (day) at a time. Don’t get overwhelmed but take it one at a time. Don’t get behind or ahead of yourself. Focus! Breathe! Don’t tense up! Relax. Change positions!! Bear down!! Rest when you can!! Push thru the pain.
Pray!
Pray More!
Praying Always!
Nothing in life or labor gets done without a fight and surrender at the same time. Fighting for life and the surrender to the process is all part of laboring thru this life. We have to fight for our lives and the lives of our loved ones and especially the vulnerable, the unborn.
We have to fight to focus on the giver and sustainer of the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE. We must not get distracted, but fight to surrender to the ONE who has WON!
Throughout the fight and surrender labor dance there must be adjustment and humility, whenever you are thrown a curve ball and the plan laid out, is changing direction. The result is what matters, but adjustment and flexibility are important to the process.
Surrender to the process, submission to the experienced, to the authority, and to one’s that have gone before. Surrender to the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE.
The fight is mean if it isn’t in love; the surrender is weak if it isn’t in the power of submission to the ONE with all authority in Heaven and on earth.
There is Nothing more humbling than labor and laboring through life. It brings you to your knees and strips you naked and makes you grown, it makes you bawl in pain and weep with joy.
Life and birth will disappoint and exhilarate in the same moment. Life and birth are the same, in that you can go into it with a great plan and good ideas of how it should go, but ultimately you have to adjust and continue in faith in the situation and circumstances you are dealt.
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| This is my beautiful friend Brooke Bath! |
Life and labor bring you to the end of yourself and also brings in new life and love you never knew before, it changes everything. Maybe this is one of the layers of meaning of the verse that says:
1 Timothy 2:15
But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
May we labor thru life in faith and love!!! May we fight for life and surrender our lives to LOVE and HOLINESS. May we cry for the unborn, and the yet to be born, and weep with joy at birth and rebirth.
Psalm 30:5 (ESV)
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
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