{"id":2024,"date":"2014-06-11T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/im-not-telling-you-its-going-to-be-easy\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:00:28","slug":"im-not-telling-you-its-going-to-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"I’m Not Telling You It’s Going To Be Easy! I Am Telling You It’s Going To Be Worth It!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We were married for just three months, when my sweet, young husband announced that we should start our family. \u201cWe want to be young parents and grand-parents\u201d, was his rationale. Indeed, we were just babies when we had our babies (we were 18 & 19 with the first, & 20 & 21 with the second). What a contrast we were to how \u201con purpose\u201d couples are in planning their families these days: 1) Finish college; 2) Secure a well-paying job, with great benefits; 3) Once there is plenty of savings and security\u2026..then they start their family. Not so with us — two kids that were inexperienced in life, child-rearing, business and finances. But, we had plenty of faith, self-confidence, determination, ambition\u2026..and most of all, profound love for each other. We were flying by the seat of our pants\u2026\u2026and what a flight it was.<\/p>\n

My first pregnancy was beyond uncomfortable. I was a receptionist and I HAD to work to support my \u201ccollege-man\u201d husband, besides we had a baby on the way — so \u201cmorning sickness\u201d which came with nausea and hanging out in the ladies\u2019 room, was no excuse. I\u2019d greet someone as they came into the office and would have to make a mad dash for the ladies room. Whew! Then there\u2019s the planning, dreaming, and THEN, the labor and delivery\u2026.CRAZY pain that seemed to last forever (really, only hours), that eventually became CRAZY sweet. The baby boy that we only dreamed of having, rushed in and stole our hearts. We were completely in love with that little man.<\/p>\n

Why am I sharing this little excerpt from our life story with you? Because it\u2019s a story of child-like faith, dreams, taking risks, making lots of mistakes, of puppy love that turned into real, authentic love that knew no bounds. It\u2019s a story of God loving us so much, that He even made our mistakes to prosper. It\u2019s a story of believing that what God starts in our hearts\u2026.He is faithful to help us complete it. It\u2019s the same story of anyone who starts out with a dream \u2013 perhaps a CRAZY idea that is driven by passion and determination. And, along the way, in an effort for the \u201cbirth\u201d of that idea (baby) — whether it\u2019s a business, a ministry, an invention, or heart\u2019s desire — there is tremendous hard work, pain, waiting, dreaming, and struggle\u2026.but there\u2019s no turning back. You\u2019ve given your ALL for this \u201cbaby\u201d, and though the months of preparation, dreaming, getting ready for the launch or the birth — seems like it\u2019s taking FOREVER\u2026..in due season, when it seems it\u2019s not going to happen, the greatest PUSH of your lifetime is required, and then that \u201cbaby\u201d you\u2019ve dreamed of having, will make its debut and your dream becomes reality. <\/p>\n

Today, I urge you to keep pressing in, forging on, stretching greater, and \u201cBe not weary in well-doing, for in due season, you will reap if you faint not.\u201d (Galatians 6:9). This “baby” you\u2019re carrying will get here. Be faithful to the dream and vision. Do your part as God does His. Soon, your baby will rush in and, all you\u2019ve worked so hard for, will be here \u2013 the “baby” may not look anything like you thought he would, but he will be just the way God created him to be JUST FOR YOU! When it does, all the pain, all the sleepless nights, all the worry and anxiety, will be something of the past. I\u2019m not telling you it\u2019s going to be easy! I am telling you it\u2019s ALL going to be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were married for just three months, when my sweet, young husband announced that we should start our family. \u201cWe want to be young parents and grand-parents\u201d, was his rationale. Indeed, we were just babies when we had our babies (we were 18 & 19 with the first, & 20 & 21 with the second).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6877,267,2519,11905,11906,11907,2523,545],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams","tag-faith","tag-hard-work","tag-im-not-telling-you-its-going-to-be-easy-its-going-to-be-worth-it","tag-life-story","tag-morning-sickness","tag-push","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}