Birth

9 months is a long time to wait and I freely admit, men have no clue what it is like. Try as they might to project themselves into the circumstances of carrying a child INSIDE of them and then birthing that child into the world...men just don't get it! There is simply no conceivable way (pardon the pun) a man can understand the process of childbirth. The waiting...the anticipation...the exasperation...the pain, the deliverance...the delivery...the exhaustion...the exhilaration...the

emancipation...the euphoria...the recognition when eyes meet for the first time...that first culmination of 9 months of planning, caring, loving...and then the eventual forgetfulness of pain and lifetime of love that only a mother can have. Guys, we don't get it. And yet, somehow...some way...we just might understand, if even only a little.

For 15 years, I've had a "something" growing inside of me. I have planned for it, nurtured it and loved it as my very own for a decade and a half (that's some lengthy gestation). Then, a little less than 9 months ago certain life circumstances began to force that "something" out of me. It was originally conceived sitting on the patio of a Starbucks Coffee shop in Phoenix, Arizona and it has been growing, developing and evolving deep inside me ever since. That day, it was given a name... "The Point."

"What's The Point?" you ask. That is the same question I've been asking off and on for 15 years... "What is the point?" a simple and yet quite provocative question, isn't it?

In the 15 years I've been waiting (or stalling... only God really knows for sure) others have birthed similar "somethings" into this world. I'm happy about that, too. While I'm  surely not the first to give birth to such an idea, I do believe I am part of a growing number of "parents" who are raising up some "children" with wonderful potential.

As with any birthing event, many people are involved. The mother and child, for sure. But there are doctors, OB/GYN nurses, anesthesiologists (praise God), and certain other specialists who all ensure the birth is as successful as possible. In the past few years, I have had a host of "specialists" come in and out of my life to help bring my little "something" into the world. We generally don't birth things alone. Finally...though it doesn't look exactly the way we all anticipate it eventually will (what child ever does on the day it is born)...a "birthday" for  The Point has come.

At 5:00pm on February 8, 2015, I am pleased to announce The Point will step into the world. The birthplace will be event1013 in downtown Plano, Texas. As the name suggests, event1013 is located at 1013 E. 15th Street near the heart of downtown Plano.

Please be praying for a complication-free birth and a wonderfully long and influential life. If you want to check out our "sonogram" visit www.thepointmeetshere.org and if The Point sounds like something you'd like to get to know...you are invited to come share time with us beginning Feb. 8. Peace.