{"id":14786,"date":"2023-05-06T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:52:57","slug":"the-joy-of-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/the-joy-of-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Motherhood from a Father\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"> \n#cmsmasters_row_64ffa98ae0e952_64123289 .cmsmasters_row_outer_parent { \n\tpadding-bottom: 0px; \n} \n\n<\/style><div id=\"cmsmasters_row_64ffa98ae0e952_64123289\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<p><em>The Joy of Motherhood from a Father\u2019s Perspective<\/em> is the heartwarming reflection of a first-time father expressing love for new life and thankfulness to God.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cHer children arise up, and call her blessed: her husband also, and he praiseth her.\u201d &#8211; Proverbs 31:28 <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The moment is arriving at any time. You have dreamed of this moment since you learned that you and your spouse would be having a child. You have seen the various things that she has had to go through. Whether it be pain, aches, nausea, vomiting, cravings, or whatever the case may be. The moment you have been anxiously awaiting is about to come to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Then the process starts to deliver the newborn babe. You watch as she is in pain. There\u2019s nothing you can do but encourage and comfort her as she endures the labor pains. You see, as the process gets closer and closer. You see her agony, but you also see the joy that starts to appear when she thinks about what the little babe will look like. Then it\u2019s go time. You see her pushing and breathing. You experience a whole range of emotions as you and your wife are in this critical time. Then, at last, after many, many hours, you see it. You see your child for the first time. And the mother\u2019s first reaction, and rightfully so, is to grab and cherish her new little life.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this moment play out on March 27, 2023, was such an experience that cannot really be placed into words. It\u2019s an experience you hardly could have imagined, yet you feel a change in your life and her life that galvanizes you and takes away all of the pain you just endured moments ago.<\/p>\n<p>As I saw my wife giving birth to our baby Abigail, I could only think of this verse in Proverbs 31:10 \u201cWho can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.\u201d Here I am, just ten months from just marrying this woman, and now she is bringing a new life into this world and fulfilling God\u2019s command to multiply and replenish the earth. When she saw Abigail come out, I noticed she went into \u201cmother mode\u201d and instantly sought to relieve this precious newborn\u2019s fears. She had been in the womb for the last 39 weeks. She was now in a new place and only wanted to find the voice that soothed her, and that voice was my wife\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>As the first hours passed, all I could think about as I watched my wife nurture and comfort her was that just a few months and weeks ago, she wasn\u2019t too sure how she could handle a newborn. Maybe most first-time mothers have this thought as they get closer to having a child. I remember telling her that she would know what to do when the time came, and here I am, seeing this play out before my very eyes in the hospital. The scenes with my wife and Abigail bring tears to this dad\u2019s eyes. Tears of joy and happiness and tears of the reality of finally being a father to a child, whereas I didn\u2019t know who my dad was growing up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14792 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Joy of Motherhood from a Father's Perspective\" width=\"386\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-580x871.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-860x1291.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-1160x1741.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop-600x901.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-joy-of-motherhood-a-fathers-perspective-crop.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a>As the first weeks of Abigail\u2019s life have flown by, I have seen my wife in a different light. I have fallen more in love with her as I see her enjoy motherhood and supplying Abigail\u2019s need for food and nourishment. I feel the same way as the proverb in chapter 31:11 says, \u201cThe heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I write, <em>The Joy of Motherhood from a Father&#8217;s Perspective<\/em>, I still enjoy watching her relax our daughter as it is time for bed in a short while. I know she is tired, and I know it\u2019s a lot of work for her to constantly feed and take care of Abigail, but I know seeing her joy in motherhood makes this dad super proud and happy to call her wife! Proverbs 31:30 \u201cFavour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Joy of Motherhood from a Father\u2019s Perspective\u201d is the heartwarming reflection of a first-time father expressing love for new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[873,877,876,872,254,874,875,878],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Joy of Motherhood - West Park Baptist Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThe Joy of Motherhood from a Father\u2019s Perspective\u201d is the heartwarming reflection of a first-time father expressing love for new life.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/the-joy-of-motherhood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Joy of Motherhood - 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