Thursday’s Child Has Far to Go…

Paula and I went to see the doc­tor today, and we’re going to have labor induced this Thurs­day.

Pret­ty strange to think about, that we can sched­ule that. There is the chance that she’ll come ear­ly, but the doc­tor did­n’t seem to expect it.

Expect some good news and a pho­to soon!

Let’s just hope the poem is wrong…

Mon­day’s Child is fair of face
Tues­day’s Child is full of grace
Wednes­day’s Child is full of woe
Thurs­day’s Child has far to go
Fri­day’s Child is lov­ing and giv­ing
Sat­ur­day’s Child works hard for a liv­ing
But the child that is born on the Sab­bath day
Is bon­ny and blithe and good and gay.

Then again, I’m not sure what that means. Thurs­day’s Child has far to go in order to reach what des­ti­na­tion?

Could be worse, I suppose–we could have induced on Wednes­day.

On a com­plete­ly unre­lat­ed note, I was very dis­ap­point­ed ear­li­er today. John Ort­berg is the teach­ing pas­tor at Men­lo Park Pres­by­ter­ian Church, which is about two blocks from my apart­ment. He’s also con­sid­ered one of the best preach­ers in Amer­i­ca.

Well, I’m always try­ing become a bet­ter preach­er, so I emailed him and asked to inter­view him about the ser­mon prepa­ra­tion and deliv­ery process (which I was plan­ning to encode in MP3 for­mat and upload to a web­site, prob­a­bly Reach The U).

After a few days he emailed me back and declined, cit­ing a busy teach­ing sched­ule. I was pret­ty bummed. I sup­pose I half expect­ed it–for all he knows I’m some whacko–but it’s still dis­ap­point­ing. I con­sid­er him a pro­fes­sion­al role mod­el, and so it would have been nice to meet him and fig­ure out how he does what he does.

Maybe it will work out some­day. I used to have a lot of suc­cess at meet­ing peo­ple I esteemed (or was just curi­ous about), but my last few attempts have bombed (Doug Fields, Dan Bet­zer, Dan Kim­ball, and now John Ort­berg).

3 thoughts on “Thursday’s Child Has Far to Go…”

  1. ref let­ter post­ed 22 march 2004
    try to stop look­ing at the what could have been, look for­ward to what could be?
    when we look to oth­ers they can can come between us and the ones we are there to serve.

    i have a habit of meet­ing peo­ple who oth­ers would give their right to know with­out try­ing.
    last march met bish­op evans kisek­ka at lon­don air­port. he told me that the chil­dren had start­ed
    to lead wor­ship and through them heal­ings and words are hap­pen­ing. lis­ten to the chil­dren, there is a need to have the grace that eli had when God spoke to samual.

    in christ
    dave

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  2. Keep preach­ing the Gospel. There is no greater place than a col­lege cam­pus that needs to hear the word of our Lord Jesus Christ. Stay encour­aged!
    p.s. What day WAS your child born on? Boy or girl?

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  3. Hey, I had heard the verse by Rachel Sturges about Thurs­day’s child and I thought about it today and I ran acrossed your site. Just thought I would reply with an awnser to your ques­tion about where thurs­day’s child has to go. Every­body can devel­op their own mean­ing but heres mine.
    On Thurs­day Feb. 24th 2005 my first child,a boy, William John Bernards, was born 3 months ear­ly. He weighs 2 pounds and as of now he’s doing fine. He is my awnser for Thurs­day’s child. Right now they are expect­ing him to stay in the ICU for at least 3 months.
    Any­way, I just thought I would request that you keep him in your prays and I will keep yours and all chil­dren in mine.

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