By now I'm sure that most of you have heard the wonderful news. My wife is pregnant! And while this is pretty much the most wonderful thing that's ever happened to me, it has also changed my outlook on a few different things.
Recently my wife and I found the complete series of "Boy Meets World" for sale, and decided to pick it up and take a stroll down memory lane. It is a show that everyone from my generation knows and loves, and growing up I identified with each of the different kids in the show at one juncture or another. But with this watch through, something odd is happening. With the knowledge of my impending fatherhood in the back of my mind, I find myself identifying not only with the kids, but also with the parents. As I've never been a parent before, this is coming as a kind of shock for me. It's also opening up a whole new level of understanding regarding what is happening in the show, and making all the more worth seeing.
It seems to me that this is true of many different things in our world, from Calvin and Hobbes, all the way up to the Bible. Only when you have reached a point where you can see a point from the correct reference can you really get at the core message. For this reason Paul said things like,
"I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready," - 1Cor. 3:2 (ESV)
No matter how much I may have thought I understood of this life, my understanding is about to change. But I'm looking forward to that change.
For the first time in my life, I'm going to understand what it is to be a father.
Recently my wife and I found the complete series of "Boy Meets World" for sale, and decided to pick it up and take a stroll down memory lane. It is a show that everyone from my generation knows and loves, and growing up I identified with each of the different kids in the show at one juncture or another. But with this watch through, something odd is happening. With the knowledge of my impending fatherhood in the back of my mind, I find myself identifying not only with the kids, but also with the parents. As I've never been a parent before, this is coming as a kind of shock for me. It's also opening up a whole new level of understanding regarding what is happening in the show, and making all the more worth seeing.It seems to me that this is true of many different things in our world, from Calvin and Hobbes, all the way up to the Bible. Only when you have reached a point where you can see a point from the correct reference can you really get at the core message. For this reason Paul said things like,
"I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready," - 1Cor. 3:2 (ESV)
No matter how much I may have thought I understood of this life, my understanding is about to change. But I'm looking forward to that change.
For the first time in my life, I'm going to understand what it is to be a father.
