It’s true! We are 32 weeks pregnant. Crazy, huh!? We are in month eight of this roller coaster ride.
And if I can be honest, I am so glad we are nearing the end of this. Of course I am so very excited to meet our little girl. But I’m also quite excited to not be pregnant anymore.
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With the school year gearing up to begin on Friday, I can’t help but think back over the past two years I spent in the classroom. Legally, I can’t go into details. But I can say that those two years were filled with daily hardships. Every morning I knew I was walking into a spiritual battle. And every morning I had to be fully equipped in prayer and be rooted in Scripture as I walked into a tough situation. I know without a doubt that the Lord had me there for a purpose. Even while I was in it, I knew that the Lord picked me out for that job. Most people would have walked away, but I knew I had to be a light before the students and hope that they would see how I reacted to situations and eventually glorify my Father in heaven. Not a day went by that I didn’t cry out to the Lord for His help, His Spirit, His strength in my weaknesses. I had a little wooden plaque on my desk with Nehemiah 8:10 on it, “The joy of the Lord is my strength.” And at certain moments I would sit down and read it over and over and over. The simple prayer “Jesus, I need you” constantly rose from my heart.
It’s true.
I’m an introvert. Surprised? Depending on what phase of life you know me from, you might be, or you might say, “Well of course you are!” For most of my life I felt like I had to either change my personality to be more extroverted or just apologize for my introverted ways. But the Lord has really taught me so much in the past few years about the way He creates people differently and how each individual personality is needed to complete the body of Christ and impact the Kingdom. Time really does fly by.
It has been a year since our wedding. Today, June 16th, we celebrate our one year anniversary! There won’t be any lavish date planned, no fun outing to the park, no antique store hunting or spontaneous adventure. We are separated by an ocean and celebrating from afar today. If anything, this time apart allows us to dwell on how blessed we are to have each other and be on this crazy journey of life together. Uncertainties and sadness, mourning and grief filled this past week.
Sometimes words don’t satisfy. Words fall short when it comes to a heart laden with troubles. It has been awhile since I’ve gotten on here. It goes against what I was trying to do by writing more and being consistent with it, but sometimes life just happens. And in our case, that meant welcoming the news of having a baby in early October.
We found out we were pregnant in February. February 5th to be exact. My first doctor’s appointment was the following week and we found out we were 6 weeks pregnant at that point. We’re pregnant!
I wish we could have come up with some creative and cute photo to share the news. But I’ve been awfully sick and tired. So this will have to do for now. We’ll update more soon. I recently went to my second appointment with a neurologist to continue to talk about my migraines.
I wasn’t impressed. I went in encouraged because I’ve had less migraines and less severe ones, but left with an uneasy feeling about how they wanted to continue my treatment. Don’t get me wrong, they are doing what they are supposed to. They are treating patients and prescribing medication. And they are pretty thorough in the process. It’s the prescribing medications that left me questioning. |
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Sarah ConnatserSarah loves Jesus and her family and is passionate about addressing the urgent spiritual and physical needs around the world. She is the wife of Spencer and mama of Katherine and Claire, and they live in Nashville, TN. She runs a photography business with her husband and writes in order to offer encouragement and invite others to choose grace, joy, and gratitude in the adventure and the mundane. She loves traveling and reading; she will choose unsweet tea over sweet and bootcut jeans over skinny; and she is all sorts of awkward with small talk but thrives with deep conversations. |