Yesterday we were all sitting around on the porch and\u00a0Ephraim (just so we are all clear, we pronounce it: *Efrum) was majorly rejoicing in his mommy’s belly. \u00a0We have seen him already moving around plenty in there but yesterday he was dancing like crazy. \u00a0Ej pulled her shirt up and we could all see him perfectly, so i was thinking, why do we say he is coming and not that he’s already here? \u00a0Obviously there is more to come, \u00a0i will soon be able to hold him and kiss him, but in reality, he is already here with us! \u00a0Reminds me of a similar reality with someone else i know…<\/p>\n
So think about this, if Ephraim were to be “born” premature, on July 1st say, that would be his birthday and then next July 1st he would be one year old. \u00a0But if he comes on his due date, September 19th, then that<\/em> is his birthday and he wouldn’t be considered a year old until next September 19th. \u00a0But in both cases he has actually existed for the same amount of time! \u00a0Don’t you think that is weird? \u00a0It sounds like we are counting wrong, like we are hinging something objective on something completely subjective or variable (we do that a lot). \u00a0Ephraim is already here and a part of our family! \u00a0You may say “well yea but”\u2014and i would say, “get your but out of here!” \u00a0If we looked at reality objectively\u2014and we can because Truth objectively exists, He is Messiah\u2014i believe we would see this creation and our creator more properly, or more fully. \u00a0Have you ever just stopped to think about how inconsistently we think and reason? \u00a0Truth isn’t inconsistent, so why are we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday we were all sitting around on the porch and\u00a0Ephraim (just so we are all clear, we pronounce it: *Efrum) was majorly rejoicing in his mommy’s belly. \u00a0We have seen him already moving around plenty in there but yesterday he was dancing like crazy. \u00a0Ej pulled her shirt up and we could all see him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[72,84,85,24],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-baby","tag-inconsistent","tag-reality","tag-truth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5C2eY-9M","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}