BEWILDERED FIRST TIME PARENTS 🤣
Brett, Alix & Adalynn Taylor
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
It’s hard to write a devotion that other parents are going to read when you only have 5 months of experience, but I guess you do learn a lot in a short space of time. During Alix’s pregnancy, we tried to stay as well informed as possible while keeping our expectations as realistic as possible, but there is no way to avoid the bewilderment of being a first time parent.
From the moment Adalynn was born, there were decisions to be made and many voices ringing in our heads from all the advice we’d already been given. Sometimes the advice was helpful but other times, it didn’t quite fit our situation. We quickly learnt the value of taking moments to pray together about decisions, even when it didn’t feel like we had a moment to spare.
It is wonderful and amazing how God has lead us through so many decisions, big and small. We specifically prayed for the right advice to come our way at the right times, and it did! We absolutely believe that God was guiding us in this way, as well as in many other ways. We still see this and look out for it all the time, because we realise that our understanding brings confusion, indecision, stress and tension. Instead, submitting to God’s guidance brings a clear, straight path, and a peace while walking in it.
We have no idea what’s coming next, but we know where we’ll turn in the next moment of bewilderment.