{"id":553,"date":"2018-06-18T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/its-not-easy-but-it-is-sure-worth-i\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:14:13","slug":"its-not-easy-but-it-is-sure-worth-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Easy \u2013 But It Is Sure Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m here in Austin where we had a sweet Father\u2019s Day with my son and family. My son is a terrific father and I like to think that he is because of his dad who loved him so much and modeled a loving father and mentor to him. Father\u2019s Day prompted the memories of so many joys my husband and I had in welcoming him, our firstborn, to this world.<\/p>\n

We were married for just three months when my bold and daring, young husband announced that we should start our family. \u201cWe want to be young parents and grandparents\u201d was his rationale. Indeed, we were just babies when we had our babies (we were 18 & 19 with the first, and 20 & 21 with the second). What a contrast we were to how \u201con purpose\u201d couples are in planning their families these days: finish college; secure a well-paying job with great benefits; plenty of savings and security — then they’re ready to 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, 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 an office receptionist, working to support my \u201ccollege-man\u201d husband AND we had a baby on the way. Morning sickness that came with nausea and hanging out in the ladies\u2019 room, was no excuse at my job. I\u2019d greet visitors as they entered the building and then I’d make a mad dash for the ladies room. There were the preparations for our little one, moving from a small one bedroom apartment to leasing a little 2-bedroom home, dreaming, and THEN, the labor and delivery\u2026.CRAZY pain that seemed to last forever (really, only hours), that eventually became CRAZY sweet. That baby boy, who we only dreamed of having one day, rushed in and stole our hearts. We were completely in love with that little man. My husband was the proudest dad and assumed his new dad role in life with fervor. But it wasn\u2019t easy. <\/p>\n

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Why am I sharing this little excerpt from our life story with you? Because it\u2019s a story of puppy love that turned into real, authentic love that knew no bound, child-like faith, dreams, taking risks, and making lots of mistakes. 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 — whether it\u2019s a business, a ministry, an invention, or heart\u2019s desire — there is tremendously 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. 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":"

I\u2019m here in Austin where we had a sweet Father\u2019s Day with my son and family. My son is a terrific father and I like to think that he is because of his dad who loved him so much and modeled a loving father and mentor to him. Father\u2019s Day prompted the memories of so…<\/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":[1008,2513,2514,2515,2516,2517,2518,2166,2519,2520,2521,2522,2523,2524,2525,924,2526],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-be-not-weary-in-well-doing","tag-birth","tag-dreaming","tag-due-seas-you-will-reap","tag-faithful","tag-fathers-day","tag-galatians-69","tag-hard-work","tag-hold-on","tag-its-not-easy","tag-pregnancy","tag-push","tag-uncomfortable","tag-waiting","tag-worry","tag-worth-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8262,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}