“I have something to show you.” Words that I’ll never forget; words that my wife said to me one morning about three weeks ago. Now I’m not a big fan of receiving surprises, so I immediately became suspicious. But then there it was. She was holding up a home pregnancy test. And in the little window I saw them.
Two. Little. Lines.
But these were no ordinary lines. These lines were different. These lines had meaning. According to the words on the pregnancy test, these lines meant my wife was pregnant! And then it hit me: I was going to be a father! At that moment I was hit by a flood of emotions unlike anything I had ever felt before. In sheer micro-seconds, my emotions jumped from elation, excitement, pride, and even fear. I’m not sure that I’ll ever experience anything quite like that again.
A million thoughts race through one’s mind when you learn that you’re going to be a father. What do we do now? How much stuff am I going to have to buy and build? How will this affect my “Call of Duty” playing?! But through all those thoughts, one constant remained. And that was the joy that I felt (and have been feeling) in my heart. You know that warm, fuzzy feeling people talk about sometimes? Yeah, that’s what it feels like. All this from what essentially was a plastic stick that my wife peed on. All of this from two little lines.