As it will, as it does come.

Cameron,
Someday your mom will make you watch movies that you will pretend to not be interested in, but secretly, you will be paying attention. And maybe when you are in high school or college, you will proudly describe how you have seen the Matrix and Star Trek and Harry Potter and The Time Traveler's Wife. Because your mom is a big sci-fi nerd thanks to her Daddy.

I used to love to think about the concept of time travel, how heartbreaking it would be to know that you could go back in time but not really change anything that would adversely affect the future that already exists. Perhaps this is what comforted me in not having too many regrets, because even the bad circumstances contributed to putting me on the path to the good stuff. No changing it now, but it worked out right.

Some people attribute this to nature and scientific law, but I see it as just another amazing characteristic of God - his omniscience. He sees all of time at once, and maybe allows things to play out in order for his plan to come to fruition. There is a great country song where a preacher dies in a bus crash while another passenger, a prostitute, lives. He gives her his bible as he is dying, and she eventually has a son whom she reads it to, and he becomes a preacher. Without a doubt, people might have questioned why God allowed the first preacher to die when he was living such a good life. But without that chain of events, the woman might have lived a very different life, and all the people eventually touched by her son could have ended up lost. Crazy cycle of might-have-beens, but God sees the whole timeline at once.

One of my favorite books is the Time Traveler's Wife, and the movie comes out tomorrow. I hope it honors how amazing the book is. I just read this really cool article about how it is one of the few stories of time travel that actually sticks within the fundamental "ground rules" according to a physicist. Things like not being able to go back in time and kill your grandfather (thereby erasing the chance for you to be born) or visit a time in history before time travel was invented. Duh. But nice to know that it isn't completely absurd like some things.

Anyway, it just got me thinking today about not only what a big nerd I am, but how I am so thankful today for all the things that affected me and pushed me to this point. They brought me to you. All the mornings when I dragged myself to class in college in my pajamas helped get me the degree that I needed for this job. Buying our house gave us the room to say, "Okay, I guess we can have kids now!" Meeting your daddy almost ten years ago, it seems like we just hit fast forward and arrived at your bright red hair.

So now, when so many things are changing for our family (like having some live in Costa Rica), I just smile and think how someday we will look back and be thankful for all the waiting and worry over how things will turn out. Because God sees the whole timeline and knows how all these things are meant for our good. So to borrow a line from the book, we should take it easy and be thankful "when the time comes, as it will, as it does come."