“Your parents are old!” Those are the words my 12 year old heard the other day from a classmate. Age, I’m 44 and yes we had kids later in life. My husband and I married when I was 23 and he was 26. We naively thought that we would have kids right away. It was 8 years of disappointment and frustration before our 12 year old would arrive.
So we are 8 years or more older than some of the parents of her classmates. Would I change those 8 years? Absolutely not! I am the person I am today because of my journey through 44 years of life.
My snarky side also came out, as I questioned my daughter if any of her classmates’ parents were running marathons (me) or still playing baseball (my husband). I know it’s not a competition. God has given us opportunities and abilities that others have not experienced. I look forward to seeing the amazing opportunities and experiences that God has for us over the next 44 years or however long he allows us to be on this earth. So, old, yes bring on the years of adventure.
Psalm 139:16
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
God has determined the number of days I have on this earth. I trust that he will accomplish all he has planned for my life in his timing. Eight years is not long in the grand scheme of eternity to wait for children. Forty four years is 44 years of living God’s ordained days.
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