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Ready or Not
How many times in your life has the good news first sounded a whole lot like bad news?
<This was a homily I gave at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago, IL during Advent of 2019 (Inspired by Luke 1:26–38). Listen to the recording here.>
Let’s wait until we’re ready.
We will… When the time is right.
Those were the sentiments my wife and I shared during the early years of our marriage before Rory — our now 6-year-old daughter — was born.
Not yet.
We’re not ready… Yet.
And then, one day, about four years into marriage, we had a realization… We were never going to be ready. The time would never be ‘right’. And so we surrendered to the longing we both shared to have a baby. Which, as unprepared as we were, we did very shortly after the Spirit moved us to submit to the “coming of Rory” — as I say:) And life, that one night in our small home in Reno, NV, changed forever. With a miraculous team of midwives and doulas buzzing around, a couple of hours past midnight after my birthday in the summer of 2013, life forever changed from BR to AR (Before Rory to After Rory).
But I’m getting ahead of the story here. Because in this moment of Advent, we’re still waiting. Still preparing for the…
