S5 E7: Pregnant With Purpose
Hey everyone! I am so excited to be part of the 12 days of Christmas productivity and purpose workshop that starts today and is being hosted by my friend and Business coach Stef Gass’s Mompreneur Mastermind Group. I’ll have a link in the show notes for where you can join and did I mention it”s free?!?
It’s a completely free workshop all about living with more purpose and productivity in your life and business.
There will be a different speaker each day with the sole purpose of pouring into you in this season!
If you’ve been searching for more success in your business, more time and space in your motherhood, more intention in the way you live your life- then you want to be part of these 12 Days!
It starts today December 13th and will go through December 24th!
And you can find the link it in todays episode show notes.
Hope to see you there! Let ‘s jump into today’s episode!
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I admit it…
I’m one of those women that loved being pregnant!
The last 3 of my 5 children were born within a 4 years span and one day my husband mentioned to me that the old saying lots of women say that “you’ll know where you’re done having more children” well he was thinking maybe that feeling doesn’t happen with everyone so I might not want to look for that to be the determining factor!
When I say I loved being pregnant some people assume I had a very enjoyable pregnancies and easy births. Which could be true compared to some hard and complicated birth stories that others have experienced.
But I had the normal 1st trimester I feel like I want to puke all the time (even though I never did) just felt like it...nothing smelled or tasted good and had an energy level of negative 10
Most of those symptoms subsided as I moved further along in the pregnancy only to then add in random weird food cravings and swollen ankles and i can remember with my 4 pregnancy having to constantly rub my stomach because of the burning I was feeling because of the stretching of my stomach which later made since at delivery when the little girl we had been told we were having was instead a handsome, healthy 10 pound baby boy!
So when I say I loved being pregnant and having babies it’s not because it was always comfortable or convenient and easy
I loved it because of the excitement and expectation of what was to come from all of the uncomfortableness and pain that had an ultimate purpose.
I’ve always been amazed how similar giving birth in the natural is to giving birth to purpose in your life.
Galatians 4:19 Paul wrote... Oh, my dear children! I feel as if I’m going through labor pain with you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.
Most often the greatest gifts that come out of our life come out of pain and struggle.
And The struggle most often times comes from us growing. We can’t grow and stay the same. And sometimes that is super uncomfortable. We get used to knowing how to show up and feel in certain situations and when we start growing sometimes we don’t fit in the same things we used to…
Just like in pregnancy when you go to put on those favorite comfy jeans only to realize you can no longer button them…
It can feel the same in your life as you grow stronger in who you are in Christ and who he specifically designed you to be that you find you no longer fit comfortably in some of the relationships and spaces you originally did.
And that’s not a negative thing… growth is good and natural. We were made to grow.
The discomfort comes because we have gotten comfortable and now we are feeling the stretch. Just like your body goes through an amazing miraculous stretching to support and hold and nourish and birth a baby. Your spirit and mind goes through a very similar process in giving birth to a seed that God has planted within you to bring forth into the world.
And that seed is unique to you. Out of all the fingerprints in the world, there is no one with the exact print as you! You are one of a kind design. A masterpiece. His masterpiece.
Ephesians 2:10 tells us that “we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us a new in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”
This time of year brings our focus to the birth of Jesus and the young teenage girl Mary that said yes to carrying and giving birth to the Messiah.
Her saying yes was saying yes to a stretching of her life as she knew it in every way!
She would be talked about
Judged
Ostracized by those who didn’t understand or believe in God’s plan for her life…
Yet she said yes.
And chose to trust God over her own feelings and fears and the feelings and opinions of others.
How about you and I say yes again this season.
You might be thinking I’ve already said yes...me too..
And I have to say it again every. single .day
Maybe you want to say yes, but you’re not sure what you’re saying yes to…
Start with the simple prayer of whatever you have for me God all those things you prepared for me before I ever took my first breath those things…
I’m saying yes!
And then keep your heart and spirit open and trust the Holy Spirit to lead you that next step and then the next one…
I’d love to speak a prayer over us…
Father, thank you for the gift of life that you gave to each of us listening today and also the gift of life that you give us through your Son.
May the spirit of Christ and the life he brings shine bright in us this season.
May we each say yes to all that you have planned and purposed for us knowing that we can trust with our lives.
Help us to stay committed to growth and be willing to be stretched and feel uncomfortable know your the plans you have for us are good and are exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think.
We love you and we are looking to you... always!
