Hot September Air is nothing really all that new...

It is the day after my 16th Wedding Anniversary. Sixteen years ago...it was a day like any ordinary day. I mean, don't get me wrong. I was a "newly wed". And I had that newly wed glow. Inside and out. However, truth be known...which it WAS, and is, ...we all know I was about to give BIRTH at any moment. HUGE I was.

Off to the weekly doctor appointment Brian and I went. Fresh rings on, Brian and I...haha!!

NOT!

OH, Brian had his golden band wrapped around his finger. Me..not so much. My fingers weren't AS fat as my ankles, but water was cursing me. The lovely band that was to be on left hand, ...didn't even cross over the first knuckle. It was okay. I didn't need the band...I had my man on my left side walking me down the hall to see the doc.

Baby Boy Brody, I was so ready for you. Baby Boy Brody was ready as well. It was just time now...it could be an hour, it could be a week. "Just do what you always do" so said the doc.

OKAY then...so off I waddled with Brian through downtown Charleston to get our weekly fill of chicken wings or mexican food. The NORM after the appt. Soon after, just as the day before when I was just a "Miss", off to the beach for yet another hot September day doing nothing but enjoying the sand, the roar of the ocean, and the rolls and pushes of Baby Boy Brody. This time I was "Mrs. Brian Harper". ...that huge tummy of mine even FELT more "real" being a "Mrs." I felt right. I felt secure. I felt like I "had arrived".

I can close my eyes today. Sixteen years later and remember that season of my life. There was stress, but never in my life was I more happy. More at peace. I didn't know I had peace, love and joy all at once...I was not experienced enough in my life to fully comprehend that those were some of the best days of my life.

I am so glad I remember them. I am SO glad I can feel the hot air, the hot sand. I am so glad I can hear the roar of the water and the whip of the winds that descend on the inlet of the Isle of Palms. I am so glad I can still remember what it felt like to feel Brody stretch and bend...he was so ready to experience the new life that was waiting...I just would hold onto him, rub his back through my belly and talk and sing to him.

For THAT season was meant for ME. God gave me that time to soak up and enjoy just for ME. I was so grateful. I wanted each day to last forever.

1 Chronicles 4:10. This part of the bible tells us of Jabez’s plea for God to bless him with abundance and how God granted his request.

• Matthew 7:7-8. This scripture encourages us to knock on heaven’s door and ask for God’s blessing because God gives to those who ask.

• 3 John 1:2. In the New Testament, John tells us of how the Father wishes, above all, for man to prosper and to be in health so that his soul may also prosper.