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Last night I hastily ate the awesome dinner my awesome wife prepared because I had less than half an hour to scarf it down before I had to head up to a nearby church building to record some piano songs with Ian’s piano teacher. The day began at seven in the morning, as I got up early to do some work before my weekly basketball game with a few friends. We also had a doctors appointment for Jen in the middle of the day, so it was a super full day!

As we were finishing up the recording, I was talking with Mrs. Anderson about the busyness of life, and how I am just feeling so overwhelmed these days, but I told her that God had perhaps showed me a glimpse of the bigger picture earlier that day.

You see, our fourth baby is due in less than a month now. That’s very cool. We’re looking forward to it, and planning for it. As I did last year, I plan to take 2 weeks off from regular office work, and take all the kids and household duties so Jen can just get used to the new baby, and recover and relax. It worked well last year, so I am looking forward to it again.

Well, as you might imagine, it’s not easy to take two weeks off from your job. And, obviously, there will be some things I will still need to do – whether at naptime, or at night, or whatver – but pretty much I’ll be in shut-down mode. So, I thought… oh… this is pretty neat. I have all these super deadlines right now, and the pressure at times seems unbearable, and my body is weary… but maybe all these deadlines now will make for a lighter March, when the baby comes? Maybe since I won’t be doing much work then, and money won’t be coming in regularly there, this big build up now will help us then.

Isn’t it cool that God pays attention to things like that? 🙂

So, for a brief window of time yesterday, I saw how my burdens currently are really my blessing. Right now: overwhelmed, tired, weary, fried. But the blessing is that maybe God has arranged it so that I will have completed the bigger projects just before the baby arrives?

Maybe. I’m hoping. 🙂

Anyway, it was a cool reminder that God makes good from hard. That we can rejoice in all things. That’s been hard to do for a little while. So that was a welcome respite.