New Blog For Me

It has been awhile since I have done much blogging. Since my previous sites weren’t getting much traffic I thought I should start a new one. Since being away I have become a Father for the first time. My beautiful daughter Sarai is now 6 months old. We had her 6 month checkup yesterday. She is now weighing in at 13 lbs. 2 ozs. and is 25 1/2 inches long, which is quite a long way from the 6 lbs. 5 ozs and 19 inches she was when she came into the world.

The past 6 months have been the greatest of my life. I would have never guessed fatherhood to be so great, even dealing with all the fussing and getting up in the middle of the night. (Sleep, who needs it anyway? I think college trained me for fatherhood.) But it always seems that with joy there is some sort of mixed blessing, and for me it is the struggle of the not yet. I love what I do and yet I know that where I am is not exactly where I should be. I know that that door is going to open soon, and I know that there will be some pain and sacrifice in getting to that spot. Yet the unbridled joy of being right where God wants you to be is something I once again long to feel.

~ by mikefoster on February 8, 2007.