Hurry Up Charlie

Pretty soon Haley and I will be the proud parents of yet another boy.  As the time is coming closer and closer, we are super pumped and cannot wait for little Charlie (news flash if you didn't know the name we have chosen yet) to get here.  As I stood in the doctor's office and watched him on the sonogram, I couldn't help but want to hold him right then.
But enough about me, after all I'm not the one carrying the little man-child, Haley is.  I'm not the one gaining the weight, Haley is (and she looks beautiful by the way).  And I am definitely not going to go through the pain of labor to see this kid come into the world, yep, you guessed it, Haley is.  I asked her to tell me what I should say when people ask me how she is doing.  She simply tells me to tell them that "she is ready".  Every mom knows what that means.
It is hard not to be anxious in a time like this because our excitement level is at an 11.  As a matter of fact, we have been hinting for weeks to get our doctor, Mandy, to go ahead and let's go after him.  She simply explains to us that some things are going to need to wait.
Philippians 4:6 tells us to be "anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God".  People who are anxious have a desire to replace their current time and situation with a future time and a future result. For example, we might like to jump forward in time to when we have that promotion, or that special someone is finally in our lives.  We want to skip the process and go straight to the victory.
What we fail to understand though is that God has a purpose for the process.  We see growth in the groundwork and maturity in the mundane.  And just as a baby needs time to develop in the womb, God gives us time to allow things to develop in our lives as well.
So what do we do?  In everything, bring it to God with prayer and thanksgiving.  Prayer to recognize your need, and thanksgiving to praise God for His ability.  No matter how big or how small, when you bring it to God, you put Him not only in the process, you give Him control.
Look what happens when we do that.  Verse 7 goes on to say "and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (NKJV)  That means that when we bring everything to God, His peace takes over.  Where our understanding gives out, His begins to (and I love this) guard our hearts and minds.
The bottom line is that no matter what you are facing right now, give it to God.  He will give you peace, understanding and guard you from anything you might be worried about.  So for now we will just have to wait.  Charlie's time will come soon enough.  I guess then we will be anxious for him to get out of diapers.