Okay, I guess those of you who have been reading this know that the whole gaining weight thing has been one of the hardest things for me… Especially since I really wanted to be one of those stick moms with the basketball bellies… Instead I am the “Happy Buddha” shaped preggie wondering if she will end up like Jabba the Hutt! Okay, so maybe I talk about this too much, but it is quite disconcerting.
Today I accidentally picked up a shirt I wore last year… I thought I had a doll shirt in my drawer. Everything I wear now has to have so much fabric—and gathers and elastic. I am seriously concerned that I will be wheeled to the hospital in a toga made from my king size Snoopy sheets.
Seriously, I had to not only take off my rings, but my two sizes bigger pregnancy ring, and now I have to leave off my necklace because what used to hang so delicately on my chest is now a strangling choker! Ahhhh!
But, nevertheless, I believe God himself sent me a little encouragement this morning. As I was looking in the mirror looking at my pudgy lips I remembered that the Bible said that Mary was GREAT WITH CHILD. So, the mother of Jesus is described in the gospels as “GREAT” not “expecting” or “cute” or “glowing.” The Word of God calls her GREAT. I would like to believe it means GREAT BIG with child. That would put me in some good company I suppose. I mean it has to! The inn keeper may have taken one look at her sitting sideways on a swayback dying donkey and realized the cot in the living room wouldn’t hold. Who knows…? But, I am glad that God left that part in to speculate about… because I am now somewhat more bravely “great” with child.
BTW: The artwork above is by one of my favorite artists and musicians from the Dallas area, ramsie Schick,... Check out more of her stuff by clicking the image.
2 comments:
And a beautiful, great, expecting, cute, glowing 'buddha' you are to me.
you made me laugh a loooot
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