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With humility I enter my first posting to this site. Humility, because (shucks) one of the other contributors to this blog is a "Dr." The other has his pictures plastered all over this site. And who am I to shed insights?
My only qualification is having been through one and eight-ninths pregnancies before. (Our second is due July 10.) During that time I have finally been endowed with one thing that nothing else could force upon me. Humility.
That's really the one thing you need. It's not about you, fellas. And whatever your dilemma, you're not pregnant! God has a way of sucking the self righteousness out of a man once and for all. I realize many men will not get this, and that's their loss. It is a truly wonderful thing to see your wife as the queen, as someone to serve, selflessly; as one who is carrying a burden you will never carry, and so the least you can do is drop everything now and pick up that dessert she is craving even though it is three in the morning and the nearest open grocer is a 30 minute drive.
So when I say "humility" I am inferring humble servanthood. This is something I come upon religiously, as well, for I found Jesus to be a servant worth mimicking. You might not agree on that note. But I would be curious how fatherhood would work without this principle of utter humility, and reverence for her vocation of pregnancy. The narcissism so prevalent might seem amusing on Two and a Half Men. But not with a pregnant woman who is nice enough to carry your child.
