Welcome to 5 Minute Friday where we write for five minutes – no editing, no fretting, no criticism – we just write about one word. Join us today with Lisa-Jo and dozens of others as we write about Wonder.
About nine months ago it all started. I looked down to see two lines on a little plastic stick. And I began to wonder.
The days ahead unknown. Who was this tiny soul now living inside of me? Was she a she or was he a he? How big would we get? Is it going to be that painful, really, pushing life from inside out into the world? What if I can’t do it?
I knew that when I saw the leaves change the time would be near. Driving down the two-lane road towards our house colors of red and orange, gold and brown adorned the grassy sides. My sign that it was time.
The wonder continued.
I held her all blue and bloody close to me that November day. She shivered and I shhhh’d as I patted her leg and they dried her off. With the cut of the cord I wondered some more. No longer attached to me physically it was the first sign of her journey. The journey God had ordained hundreds of days before.
I wonder where He will take her.
Now it’s late at night. I look down and she slurps, gulps, and pauses – not in a hurry for anything. I hear the heat come on and off. Outside is dark. Inside is silent. I want to freeze time. I notice the wrinkle above her nose is almost gone. I knew that when I saw her wrinkle disappear I would know she was growing bigger.
I lift up a prayer for this baby girl now in my arms growing with each slurp and gulp, and I wonder about her days ahead. Days already written, already planned, not a mystery for Him, just for us. And I wonder what her purpose will be in all of this. All of these days now set before her that will one day be a signature on eternity.
Whatever her purpose. Whatever the reason she’s here. God already knows. It is one that only she could fulfill in these years she’s given.
I continue to wonder.
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