The Inconvenient Gift
Two years later, reflections on an 'unplanned' pregnancy and a bit of a birth story
This post is one of my most personal and details a quieter struggle of my first year in my current place and my pregnancy with my fifth child. I want it to be known that I do not hold anyone at fault for any difficulty I experienced. I believe it was simply the way things were, and perhaps had to be, according to God’s divine wisdom and love for me, and I’m thankful for every bit of blessing — direct or indirect — I was given along the way. I share this story in hopes of expanding our imagination toward what God might be up to when His plans turn out differently than our own.
My son turned two this spring. His cheeks jiggle when he runs and he is a gift.
Two years and nine months prior, I had not been hoping for a pregnancy.
