Three
Two is an easy number. It really is. It’s even of course, so that makes it easy. Four is also an easy number, it’s even as well. Three and five are odd, they just feel different.
The “perfect” nuclear family is four right? Mom and Dad and two kids. The American Dream. A son and a daughter perfect the ensemble.
Yeah, perfect isn’t life though.
For those that don’t know, we have recently added another gorgeous little girl to our little family. You can call her A.
Monday afternoon as I came off the practice field I’d gotten some texts from Jenn. One read, “call me now,” with a follow-up, “don’t freak out.” Always good messages to get.
Anyway, I call and Jenn tells me we got a call to take in a little girl and that she said yes. I’m not exactly good actor, so I kind of let my emotions speak through my words in the phone call. I wasn’t happy. The thoughts running through my head were mostly geared towards: we are finally starting to get comfortable and now we won’t be. Immediately I begin to analyze the potential issues we could face with three kids. Being a football coach, I don’t get the opportunity to be around as much as I’d like to, in order to help. Three kids was going to magnify this by a thousand, or so I thought.
Then she walked in the door. I’m a super softy at heart and my heart immediately melted. Everything I was thinking through and mulling over disappeared. God has a way of doing that. I think the whole time he was trying to get my attention to just take a chill pill. I hadn’t listened. Like I was hardcore against this, I even went so far as to be completely angry with Jenn, all within a span of a couple of hours. Ignoring God for those two hours is real dumb. He hasn’t brought us anything He hasn’t walked with us through. He’s not going to. I don’t have to worry about where this or that is going to come from, because He’s got that already taken care of. I’m called to love on this little girl for as long as she needs me to, and that’s what we are going to do.
So that’s it, maybe you needed to hear this story. Maybe there’s something in your life you need to quit doubting or thinking about. Maybe God is asking you to stop fighting and trying to figure it all out, and to just listen to him and do it. How much of the work of God do we miss out on because we are so busy trying to overthink or over contemplate. I’m not saying doing everything on a whim, but I tell you, the Lord will accomplish what he’s set out to do.
God’s got great plans for my family and for little A. I can’t wait to see what’s in store.
