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Update and a photo or two… April 23, 2009

Filed under: family,update — hokiecaryn @ 2:35 pm
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Not much writing recently. I’ve been trying to catch up on other life things, and our schedule is still very erratic!   I wanted to share a couple photos for those of you who haven’t seen Josiah in person in a while.  We just had our 2 month appointment yesterday.  Saturday is officially 2 months since his birth!  He got his first two shots…I guess I should have taken a picture of baby’s first bandaid. But I didn’t think of it until after i’d tossed it.  I’m just not sentimental enough!! Ha.

He weighed in 75 percentile at 12 lbs, 4 oz and he’s 24 inches long!

Anyway, a photo from Easter Sunday.  Scott and I did NOT plan our outfits; it just happened — really. And a cute sleeping photo.

 

As I Hold You Close April 23, 2009

Filed under: Parenthood — hokiecaryn @ 11:47 am
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As I was holding my sleeping 7 week old, like many days the past two months, I was realizing how much his nose had grown.  I spend enough time within 8 inches of his face that I can even notice the change in the smallest of his features.   As he wakes up, I close-up-faceknow pretty well the order of things he will do — his stretches, his scrunched up face, his movement, his looking around, his recognition of hunger.  And as he starts to show patterns in his lifestyle, I begin to know the pattern of his breathing changing into the breathing that means he’s finally in deep sleep — at one point he lets out a sigh and his whole body goes calm and limp.

If we knew this about any other peer, we’d be called an obsessed fanatic!  It’s amazing how intimately attentive I have become naturally as a mom.  The funniest thing is that I’ve started to analyze my own habits and movements and wonder if they are influenced by my full awareness of Josiah’s, or if I always did those things.  When I wake up in the morning, did I stretch before?  Did I scrunch my face?  Was it always like that? I have no idea.  Being so intimately intertwined into a little life and watching him most minutes of the day watching for the slightest changes is what helps us to learn our children who can not communicate, and helps us to know, too, when changes occur.  Changes can indicate development and growth, or they can indicate something is wrong.  So we must be attentive to the details and intricacies.  We learn the range of a cry, the fluctuations in the waa-ahh-ahs to start to know when it’s just fussing, when there’s gas to be passed, when there is discomfort or another need to be met.

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More Easter thoughts April 12, 2009

Filed under: faith — hokiecaryn @ 9:13 am
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I am really thankful this weekend of Easter to remember the truth…thatit_is_finished

God is the God of this city
He’s the King of these people
He’s the Lord of this nation

He’s the Light in this darkness
He’s the Hope to the hopeless
He’s the Peace to the restless

I am grateful that there is no one like our God;
and that greater things have yet to come
greater things are still to be done here.

(Thank you Chris Tomlin for the lyrics I’ve used here from “God of this City”)

I need to remember the Truth we have. My faith is small and I’m very forgetful. I’m thankful that He’s given us His Word, He’s given lyricists songs to embed in our memory, and he’s given us holidays, like Easter, to take time out and reflect on specific events like the resurrection to remember His goodness. My memory is very bad, and He knows I need these helps to remember where my hope comes from. It’s too easy to get caught up and bogged down by disappointments here. I know God has more for me. More for my family. More for His people, and for the world.

easter_eggsOh, and I like that Easter has spring flowers, pretty dresses, bunnies, and Easter egg hunts, but I’m glad that’s not at ALL what it’s about….that’s just fluff. The REAL story is riveting and unbelievably good.

 

you will never taste death April 11, 2009

Filed under: books, music, media,faith — Scott @ 6:41 pm
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cross gravestone“Truly, truly, I say to you,
if anyone keeps my word,
he will never taste death.”
-Jesus, John 8:51

Well that’s certainly a nice sentiment. Of course it’s not really true, I mean everyone dies, right? Since the time when Jesus rose from the dead, everyone who has lived, died, and everyone who has died, stayed dead.

Well, maybe it has some kind of nice but smaller metaphorical meaning. Perhaps Jesus is saying that those who keep his word will not experience terrible tragedy. That has a nice comforting ring to it — we all want to believe that if we obey Jesus (or at least do our best) we will be protected from the bad things of life. Unfortunately that belief system breaks down quickly when you meet people who love God, follow Jesus more closely that you could ever hope to, and yet experience great pain and suffering. Besides, Jesus himself said that “in this life you will have great troubles and trials.”

So much for the sentimentality.

Then what could Jesus possibly mean by such a bald statement as “if anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death”? (more…)

 

Like father like son April 11, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — Scott @ 12:28 pm

Josiah says that Dallas Willard’s book The Divine Conspiracy is a refreshing and illuminating look at Jesus and what it means to be his followers as members of the kingdom of God. He suggested that I blog about the book as we read it together. Not a bad idea…

Scott and Josiah reading "The Divine Conspiracy"

Scott and Josiah reading "The Divine Conspiracy"

 

More pics of the newest Davis April 10, 2009

Filed under: around the house,family — hokiecaryn @ 5:08 pm
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Everyone wants more pictures, so here are some…

100_6400I made letters for his room and after we put them up, he seemed to like them!  My friend Leslie gave me the idea. I’m really happy with them.  It did take two engineers to hang them correctly!

And then here are some fun giggles and smiles:

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Easter Reflections: Losing a child April 9, 2009

Filed under: faith,family,Parenthood,pregnancy — hokiecaryn @ 11:27 pm
bye bye pebble baby

bye bye pebble baby

Today I read an article by my friend Brenna Kate, telling about losing her unborn child earlier this year. I wept, holding my son in my lap as I read her story, Bye Bye, Pebble Baby

In response, I wrote to her thanking her for taking the bold step of publicly sharing about her miscarriage and writing so personally of what it was like. I don’t think everyone has to share so publicly, but I appreciate that all the women who have lost can hear other women share their experiences.

As an outsider who has not lost, but who has known several women who have lost children to either miscarriage or abortion, I see that many of these mothers stay in a silent doom alone in their grief. Our culture wrestles with whether the fetus is even a living being with a soul, and we adopt a gnostic philosophy of detachment between soul and body. But I believe deep down we ALL KNOW (whether we believe in God or not) that the creator created this life and the death of an unborn child is a terrible tragedy, someone so helpless, who never had the chance to make choices or “do good” or choose evil.  How do we reconcile that?! (more…)

 

Realization April 9, 2009

Filed under: family,Parenthood — hokiecaryn @ 10:58 am
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Josiah with Scott at church

Josiah with Scott at church

At 3.5 weeks of Josiah’s life, we took him to church.  It was one of my first outings with him and with Scott to something more “routine” and where we’d get to share him with our friends, church family.

As we walked in the door, and people kindly oohed and ahhed and said how cute our little man was, they would talk with us, and then they would go on and talk to others.  The service started, and things — life — went on.  I had this profound revelation not everyone was directly impacted by the life and needs of this small child.  While they expressed great interest and care about how we were doing and want to know him and be involved in his life, it did not shake their world as it had mine.

This was a good revelation for me.  One to help me remember that the world was much bigger.  For a time that I’m somewhat consumed (rightly so as a new mother) with a small child who wakes, cries, eats, poops and sleeps again (with more crying in between all these activities!); the rest of the world is out there.  And when we can, we’ll engage in it!

It was good for me to realize this truth.

 

 
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