Don't Waste Your Morning Sickness

Nearing fourteen weeks, I was praying I'd be coming out of this relentless sea of nausea by now. But the last few days have seemed to have gotten even harder.

I see God in this so much.

• In a card I got from a friend on a day I really needed it. 
• In dear friends wishing so badly they were pregnant and remembering what this means.
• In the perspective I feel that I have gained.
• In remembering that out of all of the embryos we tried to "implant" only 1 of 11 worked. This embryo is special.

My goal is to not waste this weeks (going on week 10 now) of sickness. I want to try to learn and grow during this time. But oh is that hard. I recently read a post entitled: Don't Waste Your Morning Sickness. John Piper has quite a way of putting things. One of my favorite books by him is called Don't Waste Your Life. He also wrote articles about not wasting your cancer. This blog post is a spin off of his writings.

You can read the whole post if you like, but here were some highlights that really ministered to me.

• May I not waste my morning sickness by forgetting what it meant that Christ suffered to bring me life.
• May I not waste my morning sickness by failing to use the increase of daily mercy that God shows me to increase in the mercy that I show to others.
• May I not waste my morning sickness by reading more about pregnancy and how not to be sick, rather than reading God’s word and other books for spiritual edification.
• May I not waste my morning sickness by taking comfort in ‘good days’ rather than taking comfort in Christ.
• May I not waste my morning sickness by telling others of how I’m doing rather than telling them of how great Christ is.

God, help me to not waste my morning sickness...