We're having a son!

June 30, 2008 in Parenting with 6 Comments

My wife and I just found out that we’re having a son!  I’m still in a state of awe.  Sometimes, I just walk around with a smile on my face for a while before I even realize I’m smiling.  It’s hard for me to believe that I’m having a son.  This new season of my life has been filled with a myriad of emotions, from excited to overwhelmed, from nervous to overjoyed, from awe-struck to helpless.  I’ve been scared, proud, and everything in between.  Sometimes I feel pretty big (“I’m having a son!”), and sometimes pretty small (“This whole birth thing is way beyond me, out of my control.”) I have not even seen my son (well, sort of, through the ultrasound) and yet I have this deep love for him that goes beyond words.  How?  How could I love a person, that I’ve never seen, so much?

I’ll write more thoughts as I have them.  For now, I’m kind of speechless.  Here are a couple of books I’m reading that, hopefully, will help me to parent my children in a God-honoring way:

Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Ted Tripp

Withhold Not Correction by Bruce Ray

The Bible by God

 

Have you read any other books that are helpful?  I’m open to suggestions.  I want to read stuff that helps me understand how to glorify God in my parenting.  My goal in life is to glorify God in all that I do (1 Corinthians 10:31), and parenting is what’s on the docket for me.

 

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  • http://www.ronedmondson.com Ron Edmondson

    Since it is a boy. “Raising a Modern Day Knight”. Also, James Dobson’s “Bringing up Boys”

    Also, my blog

  • http://www.nateedmondson.com Nate

    Dude I got this really big smile on my face as I was reading this. I’m really happy for you man. You’re gonna be a really good and cool daddy. Sappyness aside, have you signed your little guy up for a community group yet?

  • benlreed

    Nate,
    Yes, he’s actually going to be a community group leader starting in August. He’s still got some room in his group if you’d like to join.

    Ben

  • http://www.nateedmondson.com Nate

    Yea man that’d be awesome! Sign me up! Im sure if he has any of your genes he’ll probably already know more theology than i do. haha

  • http://www.nateedmondson.com Nate

    as i think about it.. i guess he WILL have some of your genes.. thats kind of like the key esssential element of having kids.

  • http://www.jamrmiller.blogspot.com Mindy M.

    Ben,
    I’m so happy for you & Laura! Parenthood is an amazing & overwhelming experience – you’ll never be the same.
    I second Ron on James Dobson’s “Bringing Up Boys.”