{"id":19212,"date":"2012-04-26T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:37:10","slug":"52-weeks-and-the-best-decision-youll-ever-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/52-weeks-and-the-best-decision-youll-ever-make\/","title":{"rendered":"52 WEEKS (and the BEST decision you’ll ever make)"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Fitzy’s birthday isn’t until Saturday – he was born on the last Thursday in April – which is today!!<\/p>\n

I cannot believe that this little – well – NOT so little – guy has been here for 52 weeks. 52 Thursdays.<\/p>\n

I’ve really been sucking it up with blogging lately. Working from “home” and being a wife and a momma is TOUGH. I am so behind on editing – cleaning (what’s that) – and I just feel stretched too thin. I am so glad that I took time off this year from photography. Normally my schedule is CRAZY packed. I feel like right now it’s just enough – although – like I said – I am crazy behind on editing.<\/p>\n

SO much has happened this year – ON TOP of being parents for the first time!<\/p>\n

Jared and I started a marriage blog – the marriage fight<\/a> – and since then I feel like we’ve done NOTHING but argue – giving us LOTS of topics to cover.<\/p>\n

This year I have discovered that having Jesus in my life is SO IMPORTANT. More so than any other years – even 2009 – which was EQUALLY horrible. Without Jesus living in me I would have given up a long time ago – on a lot of things.<\/p>\n

God heard the cry of my heart. He gave me a BEAUTIFUL baby and a renewed hope. He has given me an amazing husband and the strength to work through our struggles and come out REFINED. God is CRYING out to you today. YOU WERE BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.<\/strong> How POWERFUL is that? God brought YOU into THIS moment and THIS time for a very specific reason. I keep trying to remember that as we go through these past few months and the months to come. Jared and I both feel called to be a ministry – to YOU. The best way for us to share God’s love is to blog. Starting this marriage blog was something we felt God was urging us to do. WE WERE BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

YOU HAVE A PURPOSE – a DIVINE purpose – and God is using you RIGHT NOW – even if you feel like you are in the middle of absolute CRAP (cus I’m feeling it) – HE IS REFINING YOU. He is bringing you to your purpose. HE LOVES YOU. OH MY WORD HOW HE LOVES YOU.<\/strong> Answer that cry. Don’t wait. He will TRANSFORM your life!<\/p>\n

Thank you God for bringing Fitzy into our lives. He is an amazing little boy. He worships You – he raises his little hands (something I’ve been doing at home lately but just can’t do it in public yet) and he closes his little eyes and lets the music flow over him. He reaches out to You. It is the most amazing and heart warming experience I’ve ever had. Our struggle to have him has brought so many closer to You and to hope. You are already doing amazing things through him. I only pray that in the time you are lending him to us that we can help shape and mold him into the man you intend him to be. I can’t even think about him all grown up – the tears just come faster and I can’t see to type – so – thank You for him.<\/p>\n

Happy 52 weeks here with us Fitzy! We love you!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Fitzy’s birthday isn’t until Saturday – he was born on the last Thursday in April – which is today!! I cannot believe that this little – well – NOT so little – guy has been here for 52 weeks. 52 Thursdays. I’ve really been sucking it up with blogging lately. Working from “home” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,24,30,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}