Hey everyone! Brendon here. Its been a while since we’ve written anything on here if your wondering why I have three words for you…..its a girl!
Yep that’s right this little beauty was born on February 23rd and weighed in at 7 lbs 7 oz and ever since that day life has been an absolute whirlwind. To my parent friends can I get an amen? Life with a baby has been absolutely fantastic. It has challenged me, changed me, and formed me. To be totally honest it has been a lot easier than I thought it would be. Within the last three months I have learned so much about life, myself, my wife (shes even more awesome than I thought before btw), and even God. I want to share one of these instances with you all that happened the other day.
A few days ago we went to Oklahoma for Lyndsay’s family reunion and to see some friends. This was our first long trip with the baby in the car (6 hours; the longest we had done before was 3). For any parents reading this you can probably relate that we were a little bit nervous. On the way down she did a fantastic job. She slept most of the time and was happy when she wasn’t sleeping. We were so excited! However, on the way back she was a little more fussy. We noticed it seemed as though when we put her in the back seat she thought we had left her because she would cry and cry and then be fine when we would stop and she would see us back there with her. Even just seeing us in the mirror above her seat wasn’t enough she wanted us back there!
I can tell you in the three months that she has been alive Lyndsay and I have never left her alone (obviously). If she ever hasn’t been able to see us its because we were just in the other room but we knew she was safe because we would be monitoring her one way or another. And I mean come on look at that face…do you think its easy to be away from her even for a second? That being said on our way home we stopped to eat and I said to her (semi-jokingly) “Come on baby don’t you know by now we’ll never leave you? We’ll always be there no matter what.”
The moment those words came out of my mouth I realized something. I am just like this baby. Even though God has always been faithful and never left, how often do I treat Him as though He has dropped me off on the side of the road? However after this experience I came away encouraged and remembering that God is a good Father and will never leave me to fend for myself. He will always be faithful and good no matter what happens, and the same thing goes for you! He will never leave or forsake us! I pray that today God would show Himself faithful in whatever circumstance your facing and that we would always remember He is a good good Father.
Thank you guys for reading this! Please leave a comment letting me know what you think! And by the way we did make it home and the baby girl did great job the rest of the ride because her momma rode in the back seat with her!