J.M.J
Live on Purpose. Parent Intentionally. Romanticize Everything.
Welcome to Foxhole Fable, where we romanticize all aspects of life. It all goes by so fast: the parenting, the adventures, even the mundane. Sometimes, it’s not until we look back that we realize it all looks beautiful.
I decided to put on the rose-colored glasses now, in the present. Romanticize everything.
I’m Emma, and my husband Jonathan and I have been married for ten years and have four beautiful daughters and another baby on the way.
Our firstborn, Audrey, was just born yesterday. That’s what it feels like anyway. Where on earth did those last nine years go? Life happens incredibly fast.
I was talking to my sister once, and she was caught in the whirlwind of a new relationship, the giddy honeymoon phase. She would call me to tell me every detail of their romantic adventures and long conversations over dinner. It’s so beautiful that we realize the romance in the moment during the honeymoon phase. Why does it feel so hard to do at other times?
I wanted to live there. I decided I was taking up a permanent residence in the honeymoon phase. Life should be that beautiful all the time, in all of life’s seasons. God designed it to be so.
Jesus once told Saint Teresa of Avila, “I would create the universe again just to hear you say that you love me.”
Don’t tell me that the architect of our universe isn’t a romantic.
So here we are, journeying on an adventure, sometimes obviously grand and sometimes rather mundane, but with rose-colored glasses on.
So go forward and create a memorable and present life with your children, date your spouse, cultivate an intimate relationship with our creator, and watch all the sunrises and sunsets that coffee will allow.
AMDG
Emma Williams
Please feel free to reach out with any questions or comments at:
emma.shanley.williams@gmail.com
